Chromosome 17
Chromosome 17 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 17 spans more than 84 million base pairs and represents between 2.5 and 3% of the total DNA in cells.
Chromosome 17 contains the Homeobox B gene cluster.
Genes
Number of genes
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. The most conservative estimate, from CCDS, represents a lower bound on the total number of human protein-coding genes.| Estimated by | Protein-coding genes | Non-coding RNA genes | Pseudogenes | Source | Release date |
| CCDS | 1,124 | — | — | 2016-09-08 | |
| HGNC | 1,137 | 404 | 495 | 2024-10-04 | |
| Ensembl | 1,184 | 1,199 | 535 | 2017-03-29 | |
| UniProt | 1,174 | — | — | 2024-10-02 | |
| NCBI | 1,199 | 757 | 566 | 2017-05-19 |
Gene list
The following is a partial list of genes on human chromosome 17. For complete list, see the link in the infobox on the right.The following are some of the genes and their corresponding Cytogenetic location on chromosome 17:
Diseases and disorders
The following diseases are related to genes on chromosome 17:- 17q12 microdeletion syndrome
- Koolen–de Vries syndrome
- Alexander disease
- Andersen–Tawil syndrome
- Aneurysmal bone cyst
- Bipolar disorder
- Birt–Hogg–Dubé syndrome
- Bladder cancer
- Breast cancer
- Bruck syndrome
- Campomelic dysplasia
- Canavan disease
- Cerebroretinal microangiopathy with calcifications and cysts
- Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease
- Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, tp53
- Corticobasal degeneration
- Cystinosis
- Depression
- Ehlers–Danlos syndrome
- Epidermodysplasia verruciformis
- Frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17
- Galactosemia
- Glycogen storage disease type II
- Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies
- Howel–Evans syndrome
- Li–Fraumeni syndrome
- Maturity onset diabetes of the young type 5
- Miller–Dieker syndrome
- Multiple synostoses syndrome
- Neurofibromatosis type I
- Nonsyndromic deafness
- Obsessive–compulsive disorder
- Osteogenesis imperfecta
- Potocki–Lupski syndrome
- Proximal symphalangism
- Sanfilippo syndrome
- Smith–Magenis syndrome
- Usher syndrome
- Very long-chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency
- Von Gierke's syndrome
Cytogenetic band
| Chr. | Arm | Band | ISCN start | ISCN stop | Basepair start | Basepair stop | Stain | Density |
| 17 | p | 13.3 | 0 | 385 | gneg | |||
| 17 | p | 13.2 | 385 | 550 | gpos | 50 | ||
| 17 | p | 13.1 | 550 | 784 | gneg | |||
| 17 | p | 12 | 784 | 990 | gpos | 75 | ||
| 17 | p | 11.2 | 990 | 1499 | gneg | |||
| 17 | p | 11.1 | 1499 | 1664 | acen | |||
| 17 | q | 11.1 | 1664 | 1815 | acen | |||
| 17 | q | 11.2 | 1815 | 2104 | gneg | |||
| 17 | q | 12 | 2104 | 2255 | gpos | 50 | ||
| 17 | q | 21.1 | 2255 | 2461 | gneg | |||
| 17 | q | 21.2 | 2461 | 2599 | gpos | 25 | ||
| 17 | q | 21.31 | 2599 | 2874 | gneg | |||
| 17 | q | 21.32 | 2874 | 3025 | gpos | 25 | ||
| 17 | q | 21.33 | 3025 | 3176 | gneg | |||
| 17 | q | 22 | 3176 | 3383 | gpos | 75 | ||
| 17 | q | 23.1 | 3383 | 3451 | gneg | |||
| 17 | q | 23.2 | 3451 | 3658 | gpos | 75 | ||
| 17 | q | 23.3 | 3658 | 3781 | gneg | |||
| 17 | q | 24.1 | 3781 | 3850 | gpos | 50 | ||
| 17 | q | 24.2 | 3850 | 4001 | gneg | |||
| 17 | q | 24.3 | 4001 | 4166 | gpos | 75 | ||
| 17 | q | 25.1 | 4166 | 4400 | gneg | |||
| 17 | q | 25.2 | 4400 | 4510 | gpos | 25 | ||
| 17 | q | 25.3 | 4510 | 4950 | gneg |