Chromosome 3

Chromosome 3
Human chromosome 3 pair after G-banding. One is from mother, one is from father.
Chromosome 3 pair
in human male karyogram.
Features
Length (bp)201,105,948 bp
(CHM13)
No. of genes1,024 (CCDS)
TypeAutosome
Centromere positionMetacentric
(90.9 Mbp)
Complete gene lists
CCDSGene list
HGNCGene list
UniProtGene list
NCBIGene list
External map viewers
EnsemblChromosome 3
EntrezChromosome 3
NCBIChromosome 3
UCSCChromosome 3
Full DNA sequences
RefSeqNC_000003 (FASTA)
GenBankCM000665 (FASTA)

Chromosome 3 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 3 spans more than 201 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents about 6.5 percent of the total DNA in cells.