The X chromosome is ane o the twa sex-determinin chromosomes (allosomes) in mony organisms, includin mammals (the ither is the Y chromosome), an is foind in bauth males an females.
It is a pairt o the XY sex-determination seestem an X0 sex-determination seestem. The X chromosome wis named for its unique properties bi early researchers, that resultit in the namin o its coonterpairt Y chromosome, for the next letter in the alphabet, efter it wis diskivered later.
Human X chromosome | |
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Human X chromosome (efter G-baundin). | |
X chromosome in human male karyogram. | |
Featurs | |
Lenth (bp) | 156,040,895 bp (GRCh38) |
No. o genes | 804 (CCDS) |
Teep | Allosome |
Centromere poseetion | Submetacentric (61.0 Mbp) |
Complete gene leets | |
CCDS | Gene list |
HGNC | Gene list |
NCBI | Gene list |
External map viewers | |
Ensembl | Chromosome X |
Entrez | Chromosome X |
NCBI | Chromosome X |
UCSC | Chromosome X |
Full DNA sequences | |
RefSeq | NC_000023 (FASTA) |
GenBank | CM000685 (FASTA) |
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