What Is Human Chromosome 1?

The chromosome 1 in human system is considered to be the largest chromosome. In general, chromosome 1 comes in pair. Chromosome 1 consists of 246 million nucleotide base pairs. These are the basic information carrier for human DNA. Chromosome 1 consists of 3141 genes. Some of them are listed below:

ACADM, COL11A1, CPT2, DBT, DIRAS3, ESPN, F5, FMO3, GALE, GBA, GJB3, GLC1A, HFE2, HMGCL, HPC1, IRF6, KCNQ4, KIF1B, LMNA, MFN2, MPZ, MTHFR, MTR, MUTYH, PARK7, PINK1, PLOD1, PPOX, PSEN2, SDHB, TSHB, UROD, USH2A.

The chromosome 1 in human system is known to be related to the maximum number of genetic diseases. Some of the examples of the disease related to human chromosome 1 are as follows:

Alzheimer disease, Breast Cancer, congenital hypothyroidism, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Gaucher disease: Type 1, 2 and 3, Glaucoma, Homocystinuria, maple syrup urine disease, Nonsyndromic deafness, Parkinson disease, prostate cancer, Van der Woude syndrome and many more.

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