Abstract
Human chromosome 11 is a submetacentric chromosome that contains some 4% of the genome and a number of imprinted genes.
Keywords: chromosome 11; sequencing; imprinting; translocations; diseases
Chromosome 11
Daniela S Gerhard, Office of Cancer Genomics, NCI, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Published online: January 2006
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0005820
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Further Reading
Gaudray P, et al. (1999) Report on the Sixth International Workshop on Human Chromosome 11 Mapping 1998. Cyto‐genetics and Cell Genetics 86: 167–186.
International Genome Sequencing Consortium (2001) Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome. Nature 409: 860–921.
James MR, Richard 3rd CW, Schott JJ, et al. (1994) A radiation hybrid map of 506 STS markers spanning human chromosome 11. Nature Genetics 8: 70–76.
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Web Links
Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology. http://www.infobiogen.fr/services/chromcancer/Indexbychrom/idx_11.html
CGAP Mitelman Database of Chromosome Aberrations in Cancer http://cgap.nci.nih.gov/Chromosomes/Mitelman
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NCBI Human–Mouse Homology Map http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Homology/
NCBI LocusLink http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/LocusLink/
NCBI UniGene http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/UniGene/
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=OMIM
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Gerhard, Daniela S(Jan 2006) Chromosome 11. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0005820]
