Chromosome 21 (human)

Chromosome 21 (human)

Human chromosome 21 pair after G-banding.
One is from mother, one is from father.

Chromosome 21 pair
in human male karyogram.
Features
Length (bp) 46,709,983 bp
(GRCh38)[1]
No. of genes 215 (CCDS)[2]
Type Autosome
Centromere position Acrocentric[3]
(12.0 Mbp[4])
External map viewers
Ensembl Chromosome 21
Entrez Chromosome 21
NCBI Chromosome 21
UCSC Chromosome 21
Full DNA sequences
RefSeq NC_000021 (FASTA)
GenBank CM000683 (FASTA)

Chromosome 21 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. Chromosome 21 is the smallest human autosome, with 48 million nucleotides (the building material of DNA) representing about 1.5 percent of the total DNA in cells. Most people have two copies of chromosome 21, while those with three copies of chromosome 21 have Down syndrome, also called "trisomy 21".

Researchers working on the Human Genome Project announced that they had determined the sequence of base pairs that make up this chromosome. Chromosome 21 was the second human chromosome to be fully sequenced, after chromosome 22.

Genes

The following are some of the gene count estimates of human chromosome 21. Because researchers use different approaches to genome annotation their predictions of the number of genes on each chromosome varies (for technical details, see gene prediction). Among various projects, the collaborative consensus coding sequence project (CCDS) takes an extremely conservative strategy. So CCDS's gene number prediction represents a lower bound on the total number of human protein-coding genes.[5]

When simply saying "number of genes", in most cases, it refers only to "number of protein-coding genes".

Estimated by Protein-coding genes Non-coding RNA genes Pseudogenes Source Release date
CCDS 215 - - [2] 2016-09-08
HGNC 217 165 180 [6] 2017-05-12
Ensembl 234 404 183 [7] 2017-03-29
NCBI 256 356 207 [8][9][10] 2017-05-19

The following are some of the genes located on chromosome 21:

Diseases and disorders

The following diseases are some of those related to genes on chromosome 21:

Chromosomal conditions

Translocation Down's syndrome affecting Chromosome 21

The following conditions are caused by changes in the structure or number of copies of chromosome 21:

Cytogenetic band

G-banding ideograms of human chromosome 21
G-banding ideogram of human chromosome 21 in resolution 850 bphs. Band length in this diagram is proportional to base-pair length. This type of ideogram is generally used in genome browsers (e.g. Ensembl, UCSC Genome Browser).
G-banding patterns of human chromosome 21 in three different resolutions (400,[13] 550[14] and 850[4]). Band length in this diagram is based on the ideograms from ISCN (2013).[15] This type of ideogram represents actual relative band length observed under a microscope at the different moments during the mitotic process.[16]
G-bands of human chromosome 21 in resolution 850 bphs[17]
Chr. Arm[18] Band[19] ISCN
start[20]
ISCN
stop[20]
Basepair
start
Basepair
stop
Stain[21] Density
21 p 13 0 311 1 3,100,000 gvar
21 p 12 311 683 3,100,001 7,000,000 stalk
21 p 11.2 683 1056 7,000,001 10,900,000 gvar
21 p 11.1 1056 1274 10,900,001 12,000,000 acen
21 q 11.1 1274 1367 12,000,001 13,000,000 acen
21 q 11.2 1367 1584 13,000,001 15,000,000 gneg
21 q 21.1 1584 2019 15,000,001 22,600,000 gpos 100
21 q 21.2 2019 2144 22,600,001 25,500,000 gneg
21 q 21.3 2144 2330 25,500,001 30,200,000 gpos 75
21 q 22.11 2330 2485 30,200,001 34,400,000 gneg
21 q 22.12 2485 2610 34,400,001 36,400,000 gpos 50
21 q 22.13 2610 2703 36,400,001 38,300,000 gneg
21 q 22.2 2703 2858 38,300,001 41,200,000 gpos 50
21 q 22.3 2858 3200 41,200,001 46,709,983 gneg

References

  1. "Human Genome Assembly GRCh38 - Genome Reference Consortium". National Center for Biotechnology Information. 2013-12-24. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
  2. 1 2 "Search results - 21[CHR] AND "Homo sapiens"[Organism] AND ("has ccds"[Properties] AND alive[prop]) - Gene". NCBI. CCDS Release 20 for Homo sapiens. 2016-09-08. Retrieved 2017-05-28.
  3. Tom Strachan; Andrew Read (2 April 2010). Human Molecular Genetics. Garland Science. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-136-84407-2.
  4. 1 2 Genome Decoration Page, NCBI. Ideogram data for Homo sapience (850 bphs, Assembly GRCh38.p3). Last update 2014-06-03. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  5. Pertea M, Salzberg SL (2010). "Between a chicken and a grape: estimating the number of human genes.". Genome Biol. 11 (5): 206. PMC 2898077Freely accessible. PMID 20441615. doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-5-206.
  6. "Statistics & Downloads for chromosome 21". HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee. 2017-05-12. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  7. "Chromosome 21: Chromosome summary - Homo sapiens". Ensembl Release 88. 2017-03-29. Retrieved 2017-05-19.
  8. "Search results - 21[CHR] AND "Homo sapiens"[Organism] AND ("genetype protein coding"[Properties] AND alive[prop]) - Gene". NCBI. 2017-05-19. Retrieved 2017-05-20.
  9. "Search results - 21[CHR] AND "Homo sapiens"[Organism] AND ( ("genetype miscrna"[Properties] OR "genetype ncrna"[Properties] OR "genetype rrna"[Properties] OR "genetype trna"[Properties] OR "genetype scrna"[Properties] OR "genetype snrna"[Properties] OR "genetype snorna"[Properties]) NOT "genetype protein coding"[Properties] AND alive[prop]) - Gene". NCBI. 2017-05-19. Retrieved 2017-05-20.
  10. "Search results - 21[CHR] AND "Homo sapiens"[Organism] AND ("genetype pseudo"[Properties] AND alive[prop]) - Gene". NCBI. 2017-05-19. Retrieved 2017-05-20.
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  12. Gardiner K, Davisson M (2000). "The sequence of human chromosome 21 and implications for research into Down syndrome". Genome Biol. 1 (2): REVIEWS0002. PMC 138845Freely accessible. PMID 11178230. doi:10.1186/gb-2000-1-2-reviews0002.
  13. Genome Decoration Page, NCBI. Ideogram data for Homo sapience (400 bphs, Assembly GRCh38.p3). Last update 2014-03-04. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  14. Genome Decoration Page, NCBI. Ideogram data for Homo sapience (550 bphs, Assembly GRCh38.p3). Last update 2015-08-11. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  15. International Standing Committee on Human Cytogenetic Nomenclature (2013). ISCN 2013: An International System for Human Cytogenetic Nomenclature (2013). Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers. ISBN 978-3-318-02253-7.
  16. Sethakulvichai, W.; Manitpornsut, S.; Wiboonrat, M.; Lilakiatsakun, W.; Assawamakin, A.; Tongsima, S. (2012). "Estimation of band level resolutions of human chromosome images" (PDF). In Computer Science and Software Engineering (JCSSE), 2012 International Joint Conference on: 276–282. doi:10.1109/JCSSE.2012.6261965.
  17. Genome Decoration Page, NCBI. Ideogram data for Homo sapience (850 bphs, Assembly GRCh38.p3). Last update 2014-06-03. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  18. "p": Short arm; "q": Long arm.
  19. For cytogenetic banding nomenclature, see article locus.
  20. 1 2 These values (ISCN start/stop) are based on the length of bands/ideograms from the ISCN book, An International System for Human Cytogenetic Nomenclature (2013). Arbitrary unit.
  21. gpos: Region which is positively stained by G banding, generally AT-rich and gene poor; gneg: Region which is negatively stained by G banding, generally CG-rich and gene rich; acen Centromere. var: Variable region; stalk: Stalk.
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