AmiGO 2: Term Details for "positive T cell selection" (GO:0043368)

Accession: GO:0043368
Name: positive T cell selection
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: positive T lymphocyte selection, positive T-cell selection, positive T-lymphocyte selection
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The process of sparing immature T cells which react with self-MHC protein complexes with low affinity levels from apoptotic death. Source: ISBN:0781735149, PMID:12414722
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0043368 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to positive T cell selection (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to positive T cell selection (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for positive T cell selection (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
positive T cell selection	is_a	T cell selection (GO:0045058)

subject	relation	object
positive extrathymic T cell selection (GO:0045067)	is_a	positive T cell selection
CD4-positive or CD8-positive, alpha-beta T cell lineage commitment (GO:0043369)	BFO:0000050	positive T cell selection
positive thymic T cell selection (GO:0045059)	is_a	positive T cell selection

positive T cell selection