“Chromosome 9”  

Human Chromosome 9

  In our body's cells, Chromosome 9, a medium-sized submetacentric human chromosomes group c member, is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes, we normally have two copies of this chromosome, one copy inherited from each parent.

Chromosome 9 is a medium-sized Human Chromosome

  In our body's cells, Chromosome 9, is made up of about 140 million DNA building blocks (base pairs) and represents approximately 4.5 percent of the total DNA in cells, estimated to contain between 800 and 1,300 genes.
  The human chromosome 9 cytogenetic locations include:

• Chromosome 9p telomere
  • chromosome 9p (short arm)
• Chromosome 9 centromere
  • chromosome 9q (long arm)
• Chromosome 9q telomere

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