Chromosome 2

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)
TypeAutosome
Centromere positionSubmetacentric
(93.9 Mbp)
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)

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 and representing almost eight percent of the total DNA in human cells.

Chromosome 2 contains the HOXD homeobox gene cluster.