| id | GO:0033077 Detailed information
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| name | T cell differentiation in thymus
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| namespace | biological_process
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| def | "The process in which a precursor cell type acquires the specialized features of a T cell via a differentiation pathway dependent upon transit through the thymus." [GOC:add, ISBN:0781735149 "Fundamental Immunology"]
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| 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'.
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| synonym | "T cell development in thymus" RELATED [GOC:add]
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| synonym | "thymic T cell differentiation" EXACT []
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| synonym | "thymocyte cell differentiation" EXACT []
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| synonym | "thymocyte differentiation" EXACT []
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| is_a | GO:0030217 ! T cell differentiation
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