AmiGO 2: Term Details for "positive thymic T cell selection" (GO:0045059)

Accession: GO:0045059
Name: positive thymic T cell selection
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: positive thymic T lymphocyte selection, positive thymic T-cell selection, positive thymic T-lymphocyte selection
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The process of sparing immature T cells in the thymus 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:0045059 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to positive thymic T cell selection (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to positive thymic T cell selection (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for positive thymic T cell selection (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
positive thymic T cell selection	is_a	positive T cell selection (GO:0043368)
positive thymic T cell selection	is_a	thymic T cell selection (GO:0045061)

subject	relation	object
positive regulation of positive thymic T cell selection (GO:1902234)	RO:0002213	positive thymic T cell selection
regulation of positive thymic T cell selection (GO:1902232)	RO:0002211	positive thymic T cell selection
negative regulation of positive thymic T cell selection (GO:1902233)	RO:0002212	positive thymic T cell selection

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