To allow students to explore some human genes that have been mapped by positional cloning. This is a database at NIH of human disease genes. 3.Click on the Accession Number of a disease of interest. This will bring up a document with a massive amount of information about the gene, including the sequence. Make a note of this information.
P is the short arm, q is the long arm.
This will bring up a graphic identifying each band of your chromosome. Click somewhere in the appropriate band to bring up a list of all disease genes mapped to that band. Note that when the server is busy this can take several minutes.