Term Information

Accession
GO:0033078
Name
extrathymic T cell differentiation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
extrathymic T cell development
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The process in which a precursor cell type acquires the specialized features of a T cell via a differentiation pathway independent of the thymus. Source: ISBN:0781735149, GOC:add
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:0033078 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of extrathymic T cell differentiation (GO:0033078)
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extrathymic T cell differentiation [is_a relation] is_a  T cell differentiation (GO:0030217)
Children of extrathymic T cell differentiation (GO:0033078)
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regulation of extrathymic T cell differentiation (GO:0033082) [RO:0002211 relation] RO:0002211  extrathymic T cell differentiation
extrathymic T cell selection (GO:0045062) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  extrathymic T cell differentiation
negative regulation of extrathymic T cell differentiation (GO:0033086) [RO:0002212 relation] RO:0002212  extrathymic T cell differentiation
positive regulation of extrathymic T cell differentiation (GO:0033090) [RO:0002213 relation] RO:0002213  extrathymic T cell differentiation
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