What is the Composition of Human Chromosomes?

[xorbie]

Hey all. I'm looking for a good source of general information about specific human chromosomes, such as what % of the chromosome is composed of genes, telomeres and centromere region, and what % is silent. The resources I have found thus far (like Genome on the PubMed site) have had great information about where specific genes are, but I just can't find what I'm looking for.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Monique]

At the bottom of the page there is further reading material that should contain that kind of information http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/seq/ the Feb 15th 2001 article of Nature, and the article in Science are free for everyone to download.

 

[xorbie]

Thanks. Hopefully that should give me what I need.

 

[loseyourname]

If you're a student or researcher in need of this information for purely academic reasons, you can download up to 1 megabase per week of the Celera human genome for free. You can register here.