DNA. Genetic Length of Chromosomes

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Intermediate source: Walter Freeman, 9 September 2012, email to genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com
Original Sources:
1. Chromosome lengths in bp taken from: ORNL. (Note: Determined Length asterisk not explained; dead link Chromosome size]
2. (September 2003) National Center for Biotechnology Information. Human Reference Sequence (from Build 33 of the Human Genome released April 14, 2003). Gch;sex ave;human = 48.1 + 0.78P; Gch;female;human = 54.2 + 1.02P; Gch;male;human = 42.0 + 0.53P
3. Wentain Li & Jan Freudenberg, Genome Research 2009. "Two-parameter characterization of chromosome-scale recombination rate"


Data

Chromosome Length in Base Pairs Length in cM Length in cM
Sequence Determined Average human male female Average human male female
1 245,203,898 218,712,898 239.36 171.96 304.31 218.7 157.92 277.29
2 243,315,028 237,043,673 237.89 170.96 302.38 232.99 167.63 295.98
3 199,411,731 193,607,218 203.64 147.69 257.6 199.11 144.61 251.68
4 191,610,523 186,580,523 197.56 143.55 249.64 193.63 140.89 244.51
5 180,967,295 177,524,972 189.25 137.91 238.79 186.57 136.09 235.28
6 170,740,541 166,880,540 181.28 132.49 228.36 178.27 130.45 224.42
7 158,431,299 154,546,299 171.68 125.97 215.8 168.65 123.91 211.84
8 145,908,738 141,694,337 161.91 119.33 203.03 158.62 117.1 198.73
9 134,505,819 115,187,714 153.01 113.29 191.4 137.95 103.05 171.69
10 135,480,874 130,710,865 153.78 113.8 192.39 150.05 111.28 187.53
11 134,978,784 130,709,420 153.38 113.54 191.88 150.05 111.28 187.52
12 133,464,434 129,328,332 152.2 112.74 190.33 148.98 110.54 186.11
13 114,151,656 95,511,656 137.14 102.5 170.63 122.6 92.62 151.62
14 105,311,216 87,191,216 130.24 97.81 161.62 116.11 88.21 143.14
15 100,114,055 81,117,055 126.19 95.06 156.32 111.37 84.99 136.94
16 89,995,999 79,890,791 118.3 89.7 146 110.41 84.34 135.69
17 81,691,216 77,480,855 111.82 85.3 137.53 108.54 83.06 133.23
18 77,753,510 74,534,531 108.75 83.21 133.51 106.24 81.5 130.23
19 63,790,860 55,780,860 97.86 75.81 119.27 91.61 71.56 111.1
20 63,644,868 59,424,990 97.74 75.73 119.12 94.45 73.5 114.81
21 46,976,537 33,924,742 84.74 66.9 102.12 74.56 59.98 88.8
22 49,476,972 34,352,051 86.69 68.22 104.67 74.89 60.21 89.24
Sum/1M 2,866.93 2,661.74 3,294.40 2,443.47 4,116.66 3,134.35 2,334.72 3,907.37
X 152,634,166 147,686,664 167.15 122.9 209.89 163.3 120.27 204.84
Y 50,961,097 22,761,097 87.85 69.01 106.18 65.85 54.06 77.42
Sum/1M 203.6 170.45 255 191.91 316.07 229.15 174.34 282.26
Grand Sum/1M 3,071 2,832 3,549 2,635 4,433 3,364 2,509 4,190