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AmiGO 2: Term Details for "leukocyte differentiation" (GO:0002521)

️Gene Ontology Consortium
️Sat Feb 08 2025

Accession

GO:0002521

Name

leukocyte differentiation

Ontology

biological_process

Synonyms

immune cell differentiation, leucocyte differentiation

Alternate IDs

None

Definition

The process in which a relatively unspecialized hemopoietic precursor cell acquires the specialized features of a leukocyte. A leukocyte is an achromatic cell of the myeloid or lymphoid lineages capable of ameboid movement, found in blood or other tissue. Source: CL:0000738, GOC:add, PMID:16551264

Comment

None

History

See term history for GO:0002521 at QuickGO

Chem. react.

None

Subset

None

Link to all genes and gene products annotated to leukocyte differentiation (excluding "regulates").

Link to all direct and indirect annotations to leukocyte differentiation (excluding "regulates").

Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for leukocyte differentiation (excluding "regulates").