Chromosome 17

Chromosome 17 spans more than 84 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents between 2.5 and 3% of the total DNA in cells.

The following are some of the gene count estimates of human chromosome 17.

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).

The most conservative estimate, from CCDS, represents a lower bound on the total number of human protein-coding genes.

[4] The following is a partial list of genes on human chromosome 17.

Inactivating PH mutation in either the EVER1 or EVER2 genes, which are located adjacent to one another on chromosome 17 causes Epidermodysplasia verruciformis .