Term Information

Accession
GO:0030098
Name
lymphocyte differentiation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
lymphocyte cell differentiation, lymphocytic blood cell differentiation, lymphocyte development
Alternate IDs
GO:0046650
Definition
The process in which a relatively unspecialized precursor cell acquires specialized features of a lymphocyte. A lymphocyte is a leukocyte commonly found in the blood and lymph that has the characteristics of a large nucleus, a neutral staining cytoplasm, and prominent heterochromatin. Source: CL:0000542, GOC:go_curators
Comment
Note that immunologists typically use the word 'development' to refer to cells of B or T cell lineages undergoing the process that GO describes as 'cell differentiation'.
History
See term history for GO:0030098 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of lymphocyte differentiation (GO:0030098)
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lymphocyte differentiation [is_a relation] is_a  mononuclear cell differentiation (GO:1903131)
lymphocyte differentiation [is_a relation] is_a  lymphocyte activation (GO:0046649)
Children of lymphocyte differentiation (GO:0030098)
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negative regulation of lymphocyte differentiation (GO:0045620) [RO:0002212 relation] RO:0002212  lymphocyte differentiation
positive regulation of lymphocyte differentiation (GO:0045621) [RO:0002213 relation] RO:0002213  lymphocyte differentiation
natural killer cell differentiation (GO:0001779) [is_a relation] is_a  lymphocyte differentiation
B cell differentiation (GO:0030183) [is_a relation] is_a  lymphocyte differentiation
T cell differentiation (GO:0030217) [is_a relation] is_a  lymphocyte differentiation
regulation of lymphocyte differentiation (GO:0045619) [RO:0002211 relation] RO:0002211  lymphocyte differentiation
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