| Entire length of the chromosome | 154 800 000 bp |
| Length of short arm | 58 500 000 bp |
| Length of long arm | 93 300 000 bp |
| Length of centromere | 3 000 000 bp |
| Length of pseudoautosomal region Xp | 2 700 000 bp |
| Length of pseudoautosomal region Xq | 330 000 bp |
| Interspersed repeats | 57% |
| No. of euchromatic gaps (20 kb - 180 kb) | 14 |
| No. of genes | 1098 |
| Average distribution of annotated genes | 7.1/Mb |
| No. of pseudogenes | 703 |
| Average distribution of pseudogenes | 4.5/Mb |
| No. of reference SNPs (dbSNP) | 35 933 |
| Mean reference SNP marker distance | 4.3 kb |
| Longest gene (bp): DMD/dystrophin | 2 220 223 bp |
| Longest exon: XIST (exon 1) | 11 372 bp |
| No. of disease genes (OMIM) | 208 |
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| Size of the printing file | 25 Gb |
| No. of banners | 115 |
| Size of banners | 748 sqm |
| Sequence length of single banners | 1 346 400 bp |
| Text lines per banner | 2244 |
| Sequence length of single line | 600 bp |
| Entire length of the text | 232 km |
