Chromosome 16 Open Reading Frame 71 (C16orf71)

C16orf71 Evidence at transcript level. Chromosome 16 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome.
Chromosome 16 spans about 90 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents just under 3 % of the total DNA in cells.Identifying genes on each chromosome is an active area of genetic research. Because researchers use different approaches to predict the number of genes on each chromosome, the estimated number of genes varies. Chromosome 16 probably contains between 850 and 1,200 genes.In February 2010, a new cause of obesity due to a microdeletion on chromosome 16 was announced. It may explain about 1% of obesity cases.