Chromosome 2
Human chromosome 2 pair after G banding. One is from mother, one is from father.
Chromosome 2 pair
in human male karyogram.
Features
Length (bp)242,696,752 bp
(CHM13)
No. of genes1,194 (CCDS)[1]
TypeAutosome
Centromere positionSubmetacentric[2]
(93.9 Mbp[3])
Complete gene lists
CCDSGene list
HGNCGene list
UniProtGene list
NCBIGene list
External map viewers
EnsemblChromosome 2
EntrezChromosome 2
NCBIChromosome 2
UCSCChromosome 2
Full DNA sequences
RefSeqNC_000002 (FASTA)
GenBankCM000664 (FASTA)
Fusion of ancestral chromosomes left distinctive remnants of telomeres, and a vestigial centromere

Chromosome 2 is one of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 2 is the second-largest human chromosome, spanning more than 242 million base pairs[4] and representing almost eight percent of the total DNA in human cells.

Chromosome 2 contains the HOXD homeobox gene cluster.[5]

Chromosomes

Further information: Chimpanzee genome project

Humans have only twenty-three pairs of chromosomes, while all other extant members of Hominidae have twenty-four pairs.[6] It is believed that Neanderthals and Denisovans had twenty-three pairs.[6]

Human chromosome 2 is a result of an end-to-end fusion of two ancestral chromosomes.[7][8][9] The evidence for this includes:

We conclude that the locus cloned in cosmids c8.1 and c29B is the relic of an ancient telomere-telomere fusion and marks the point at which two ancestral ape chromosomes fused to give rise to human chromosome 2.

— Jacob W. Ijdo[13]

Genes

Number of genes

The following are some of the gene count estimates of human chromosome 2. Because researchers use different approaches to genome annotation their predictions of the number of genes on each chromosome vary. 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.[14]

Estimated by Protein-coding genes Non-coding RNA genes Pseudogenes Source Release date
CCDS 1,194 — — [1] 2016-09-08
HGNC 1,196 450 931 [15] 2017-05-12
Ensembl 1,292 1,598 1,029 [16] 2017-03-29
UniProt 1,274 — — [17] 2018-02-28
NCBI 1,281 1,446 1,207 [18][19][20] 2017-05-19

List of genes

See also: Category:Genes on human chromosome 2

The following is a partial list of genes on human chromosome 2. For complete list, see the link in the infobox on the right.

p-arm

Partial list of the genes located on p-arm (short arm) of human chromosome 2:

q-arm

Partial list of the genes located on q-arm (long arm) of human chromosome 2:

Related disorders and traits

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The following diseases and traits are related to genes located on chromosome 2:

Cytogenetic band

G-banding ideograms of human chromosome 2
G-banding ideogram of human chromosome 2 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 2 in three different resolutions (400,[25] 550[26] and 850[3]). Band length in this diagram is based on the ideograms from ISCN (2013).[27] This type of ideogram represents actual relative band length observed under a microscope at the different moments during the mitotic process.[28]
G-bands of human chromosome 2 in resolution 850 bphs[3]
Chr. Arm[29] Band[30] ISCN
start[31] 		ISCN
stop[31] 		Basepair
start 		Basepair
stop 		Stain[32] Density
2 p 25.3 0 388 1 4,400,000 gneg
2 p 25.2 388 566 4,400,001 6,900,000 gpos 50
2 p 25.1 566 954 6,900,001 12,000,000 gneg
2 p 24.3 954 1193 12,000,001 16,500,000 gpos 75
2 p 24.2 1193 1312 16,500,001 19,000,000 gneg
2 p 24.1 1312 1565 19,000,001 23,800,000 gpos 75
2 p 23.3 1565 1789 23,800,001 27,700,000 gneg
2 p 23.2 1789 1908 27,700,001 29,800,000 gpos 25
2 p 23.1 1908 2027 29,800,001 31,800,000 gneg
2 p 22.3 2027 2296 31,800,001 36,300,000 gpos 75
2 p 22.2 2296 2415 36,300,001 38,300,000 gneg
2 p 22.1 2415 2609 38,300,001 41,500,000 gpos 50
2 p 21 2609 2966 41,500,001 47,500,000 gneg
2 p 16.3 2966 3220 47,500,001 52,600,000 gpos 100
2 p 16.2 3220 3294 52,600,001 54,700,000 gneg
2 p 16.1 3294 3548 54,700,001 61,000,000 gpos 100
2 p 15 3548 3757 61,000,001 63,900,000 gneg
2 p 14 3757 3935 63,900,001 68,400,000 gpos 50
2 p 13.3 3935 4114 68,400,001 71,300,000 gneg
2 p 13.2 4114 4248 71,300,001 73,300,000 gpos 50
2 p 13.1 4248 4353 73,300,001 74,800,000 gneg
2 p 12 4353 4860 74,800,001 83,100,000 gpos 100
2 p 11.2 4860 5307 83,100,001 91,800,000 gneg
2 p 11.1 5307 5545 91,800,001 93,900,000 acen
2 q 11.1 5545 5724 93,900,001 96,000,000 acen
2 q 11.2 5724 6022 96,000,001 102,100,000 gneg
2 q 12.1 6022 6261 102,100,001 105,300,000 gpos 50
2 q 12.2 6261 6395 105,300,001 106,700,000 gneg
2 q 12.3 6395 6559 106,700,001 108,700,000 gpos 25
2 q 13 6559 6812 108,700,001 112,200,000 gneg
2 q 14.1 6812 7036 112,200,001 118,100,000 gpos 50
2 q 14.2 7036 7334 118,100,001 121,600,000 gneg
2 q 14.3 7334 7602 121,600,001 129,100,000 gpos 50
2 q 21.1 7602 7826 129,100,001 131,700,000 gneg
2 q 21.2 7826 8050 131,700,001 134,300,000 gpos 25
2 q 21.3 8050 8169 134,300,001 136,100,000 gneg
2 q 22.1 8169 8437 136,100,001 141,500,000 gpos 100
2 q 22.2 8437 8497 141,500,001 143,400,000 gneg
2 q 22.3 8497 8646 143,400,001 147,900,000 gpos 100
2 q 23.1 8646 8735 147,900,001 149,000,000 gneg
2 q 23.2 8735 8795 149,000,001 149,600,000 gpos 25
2 q 23.3 8795 9078 149,600,001 154,000,000 gneg
2 q 24.1 9078 9361 154,000,001 158,900,000 gpos 75
2 q 24.2 9361 9585 158,900,001 162,900,000 gneg
2 q 24.3 9585 9928 162,900,001 168,900,000 gpos 75
2 q 31.1 9928 10435 168,900,001 177,100,000 gneg
2 q 31.2 10435 10599 177,100,001 179,700,000 gpos 50
2 q 31.3 10599 10733 179,700,001 182,100,000 gneg
2 q 32.1 10733 11091 182,100,001 188,500,000 gpos 75
2 q 32.2 11091 11225 188,500,001 191,100,000 gneg
2 q 32.3 11225 11538 191,100,001 196,600,000 gpos 75
2 q 33.1 11538 11925 196,600,001 202,500,000 gneg
2 q 33.2 11925 12060 202,500,001 204,100,000 gpos 50
2 q 33.3 12060 12283 204,100,001 208,200,000 gneg
2 q 34 12283 12641 208,200,001 214,500,000 gpos 100
2 q 35 12641 13014 214,500,001 220,700,000 gneg
2 q 36.1 13014 13237 220,700,001 224,300,000 gpos 75
2 q 36.2 13237 13297 224,300,001 225,200,000 gneg
2 q 36.3 13297 13595 225,200,001 230,100,000 gpos 100
2 q 37.1 13595 13893 230,100,001 234,700,000 gneg
2 q 37.2 13893 13998 234,700,001 236,400,000 gpos 50
2 q 37.3 13998 14400 236,400,001 242,193,529 gneg

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  29. ^ "p": Short arm; "q": Long arm.
  30. ^ For cytogenetic banding nomenclature, see article locus.
  31. ^ a b 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.
  32. ^ 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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