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The Human Karyotype

A karyotype is a picture of how DNA is actually stored: bundled into 23 pairs of chromosomes. This page draws them with every variant, polygenic score and disease gene in our dataset at its real position.

Click any chromosome to open it

See the variants, carrier findings and polygenic scores mapped along it.

Chromosome 1 - 249.0 Mb

Chromosome 2 - 242.2 Mb

Chromosome 3 - 198.3 Mb

Chromosome 4 - 190.2 Mb

Chromosome 5 - 181.5 Mb

Chromosome 6 - 170.8 Mb

Chromosome 7 - 159.3 Mb

Chromosome 8 - 145.1 Mb

Chromosome 9 - 138.4 Mb

Chromosome 10 - 133.8 Mb

Chromosome 11 - 135.1 Mb

Chromosome 12 - 133.3 Mb

Chromosome 13 - 114.4 Mb

Chromosome 14 - 107.0 Mb

Chromosome 15 - 102.0 Mb

Chromosome 16 - 90.3 Mb

Chromosome 17 - 83.3 Mb

Chromosome 18 - 80.4 Mb

Chromosome 19 - 58.6 Mb

Chromosome 20 - 64.4 Mb

Chromosome 21 - 46.7 Mb

Chromosome 22 - 50.8 Mb

Chromosome X - 156.0 Mb Chromosome Y - 57.2 Mb

X / Y

Each pair shows two copies, one from each biological parent.

You’re viewing the reference genome. Upload your DNA to see your own variants, carrier findings and polygenic scores mapped along it.

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