Specificity
C/EBP gene is conserved in a wide number of species including chimpanzee, canine, bovine, mouse, rat, chicken, zebrafish and C. elegans and is located on human chromosome 2. Chromosome 2, the second largest human chromosome, consists of 237 million bases encoding over 1,400 genes, comprising approximately 8% of the human genome. A number of genetic diseases are linked to genes on chromosome 2.