Chromosome 1

Chromosome 1 is the designation for the largest human chromosome. Humans have two copies of chromosome 1, as they do with all of the autosomes, which are the non-sex chromosomes. Chromosome 1 spans about 249 million nucleotide base pairs, which are the basic units of information for DNA. It represents about 8% of the total DNA in human cells.

Chromosome 1
Human chromosome 1 pair after G-banding. One is from mother, one is from father.
Chromosome 1 pair
in human male karyogram.
Features
Length (bp)248,387,328 bp
(CHM13)
No. of genes1,961 (CCDS)
TypeAutosome
Centromere positionMetacentric
(123.4 Mbp)
Complete gene lists
CCDSGene list
HGNCGene list
UniProtGene list
NCBIGene list
External map viewers
EnsemblChromosome 1
EntrezChromosome 1
NCBIChromosome 1
UCSCChromosome 1
Full DNA sequences
RefSeqNC_000001 (FASTA)
GenBankCM000663 (FASTA)

It was the last completed chromosome, sequenced two decades after the beginning of the Human Genome Project.

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