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  2. Human genome - Wikipedia

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    The human genome is a complete set of nucleic acid sequences for humans, ... (~6.2 billion base pairs). In 2023, a draft human pangenome reference was published. [8]

  3. Chromosome 2 - Wikipedia

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    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 [4] and representing almost eight percent of the total DNA in human cells. Chromosome 2 contains the HOXD homeobox gene cluster ...

  4. Base pair - Wikipedia

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    Hence, the number of total base pairs is equal to the number of nucleotides in one of the strands (with the exception of non-coding single-stranded regions of telomeres). The haploid human genome (23 chromosomes) is estimated to be about 3.2 billion base pairs long and to contain 20,000–25,000 distinct protein-coding genes.

  5. Chargaff's rules - Wikipedia

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    Examples — computing whole human genome using the first codons reading frame provides: 36530115 TTT and 36381293 AAA (ratio % = 1.00409). 2087242 TCG and 2085226 CGA (ratio % = 1.00096), etc... In 2020, it is suggested that the physical properties of the dsDNA (double stranded DNA) and the tendency to maximum entropy of all the physical ...

  6. Human Genome Project - Wikipedia

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    The human genome has approximately 3.1 billion base pairs. [66] The Human Genome Project was started in 1990 with the goal of sequencing and identifying all base pairs in the human genetic instruction set, finding the genetic roots of disease and then developing treatments. It is considered a megaproject.

  7. Chromosome 22 - Wikipedia

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    Chromosome 22 is the second smallest human chromosome, spanning about 51 million DNA base pairs and representing between 1.5 and 2% of the total DNA in cells. In 1999, researchers working on the Human Genome Project announced they had determined the sequence of base pairs that make up this chromosome. Chromosome 22 was the first human ...

  8. CpG site - Wikipedia

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    In mammalian genomes, CpG islands are typically 300–3,000 base pairs in length, and have been found in or near approximately 40% of promoters of mammalian genes. [16] Over 60% of human genes and almost all house-keeping genes have their promoters embedded in CpG islands. [17]

  9. Hypervariable region - Wikipedia

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    In the case of nucleic acids, an HVR is where base pairs frequently change. This can be due to a change in the number of repeats (which is seen in eukaryotic nuclear DNA ) or simply low selective pressure allowing a great number of substitutions and indels (as in the case of mitochondrial DNA D-loop and 16S rRNA).