Human chromosomes

Human cells have 23 pairs of large linear nuclear chromosomes, giving a total of 46 per cell. In addition to these, human cells have many hundreds of copies of the mitochondrial genome. Sequencing of the human genome has provided a great deal of information about each of the chromosomes. Below is a table compiling statistics for the chromosomes, based on the Sanger Institute's human genome information in the Vertebrate Genome Annotation (VEGA) database.^[28] Number of genes is an estimate as it is in part based on gene predictions. Total chromosome length is an estimate as well, based on the estimated size of unsequenced heterochromatin regions.

Chromosome	Genes	Total bases	Sequenced bases[29]
1	3,148	247,200,000	224,999,719
2	902	242,750,000	237,712,649
3	1,436	199,450,000	194,704,827
4	453	191,260,000	187,297,063
5	609	180,840,000	177,702,766
6	1,585	170,900,000	167,273,992
7	1,824	158,820,000	154,952,424
8	781	146,270,000	142,612,826
9	1,229	140,440,000	120,312,298
10	1,312	135,370,000	131,624,737
11	405	134,450,000	131,130,853
12	1,330	132,290,000	130,303,534
13	623	114,130,000	95,559,980
14	886	106,360,000	88,290,585
15	676	100,340,000	81,341,915
16	898	88,820,000	78,884,754
17	1,367	78,650,000	77,800,220
18	365	76,120,000	74,656,155
19	1,553	63,810,000	55,785,651
20	816	62,440,000	59,505,254
21	446	46,940,000	34,171,998
22	595	49,530,000	34,893,953
X (sex chromosome)	1,093	154,910,000	151,058,754
Y (sex chromosome)	125	57,740,000	22,429,293

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