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human chromosome 9

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Also known as chr9, Homo sapiens chromosome 9, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 9

human chromosome

Key facts

Length bp
150,617,247 bp, (CHM13)
Number span no of genes
739 ( CCDS )
Type
Autosome
Centromere position
Submetacentric , (43.0 Mbp )
Ccds
Gene list
Hgnc
Gene list
Uniprot
Gene list
Ncbi
Gene list
Ensembl
Chromosome 9
Entrez
Chromosome 9
Ucsc
Chromosome 9
Refseq
NC_000009 ( FASTA )
Genbank
CM000671 ( FASTA )

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
chromosome
Length
138394717
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Commons category
Human chromosome 9
found in taxon
Homo sapiens
short name
9
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Encyclopedic overview

Chromosome 9 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. Humans normally have two copies of this chromosome, as they normally do with all chromosomes. Chromosome 9 spans about 138 million base pairs of nucleic acids (the building blocks of DNA) and represents between 4.0 and 4.5% of the total DNA in cells.

Genes

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “human chromosome 9” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.