AmiGO 2: Term Details for "natural killer cell differentiation" (GO:0001779)

Accession: GO:0001779
Name: natural killer cell differentiation
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: NK cell differentiation, natural killer cell development
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires the specialized features of a natural killer cell. 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:0001779 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to natural killer cell differentiation (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to natural killer cell differentiation (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for natural killer cell differentiation (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
natural killer cell differentiation	is_a	lymphocyte differentiation (GO:0030098)
natural killer cell differentiation	is_a	natural killer cell activation (GO:0030101)
natural killer cell differentiation	RO:0002315	natural killer cell (CL:0000623)

subject	relation	object
natural killer cell differentiation involved in immune response (GO:0002325)	is_a	natural killer cell differentiation
negative regulation of natural killer cell differentiation (GO:0032824)	RO:0002212	natural killer cell differentiation
positive regulation of natural killer cell differentiation (GO:0032825)	RO:0002213	natural killer cell differentiation
regulation of natural killer cell differentiation (GO:0032823)	RO:0002211	natural killer cell differentiation

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