Chromosome 18 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome.It spans about 76 million base pairs and represents about 2.5 percent of the total DNA in human cells.
Chromosome 18 likely contains in the order of 350 genes.
Genome:
Band:
- Human Cytogenetic Band 18p11.32 ,
- Human Cytogenetic Band 18p11.31 ,
- Human Cytogenetic Band 18p11.23 ,
- Human Cytogenetic Band 18p11.22 ,
- Human Cytogenetic Band 18p11.21 ,
- Human Cytogenetic Band 18p11.1 ,
- Human Cytogenetic Band 18q11.1 ,
- Human Cytogenetic Band 18q11.2 ,
- Human Cytogenetic Band 18q12.1 ,
- Human Cytogenetic Band 18q12.2
Identifier:
- 18
Also known as:
- Human Chromosome 18,
- Chromosome 18