Send us a Message



Submit Data |  Help |  Video Tutorials |  News |  Publications |  Download |  REST API |  Citing RGD |  Contact   

VERTEBRATE TRAIT ONTOLOGY - ANNOTATIONS

The Vertebrate Trait Ontology (VT) is being developed as a collaborative effort between the Rat Genome Database at the Medical College of Wisconsin (RGD, http://rgd.mcw.edu), Mouse Genome Informatics at the Jackson Laboratory (http://www.informatics.jax.org/) and the Animal QTL database at Iowa State University (http://www.animalgenome.org/cgi-bin/QTLdb/index). For more information about this vocabulary, or to request additions or changes, please contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).

Term:positive T cell selection trait
go back to main search page
Accession:VT:0004919 term browser browse the term
Definition:Any measurable or observable characteristic related to the process of sparing immature T cells which react with self-MHC protein complexes with low affinity levels from apoptotic death.
Synonyms:xref: GO:0043368 "positive T cell selection"



show annotations for term's descendants           Sort by:

Term paths to the root
Path 1
Term Annotations click to browse term
  vertebrate trait 5801
    organ system trait 3240
      immune system trait 1690
        immune system development trait 0
          leukopoiesis trait 0
            lymphopoiesis trait 0
              T cell development trait 0
                T cell selection trait 0
                  positive T cell selection trait 0
Path 2
Term Annotations click to browse term
  vertebrate trait 5801
    organ system trait 3240
      hemolymphoid system trait 2661
        hemolymphoid system development trait 3
          hematopoietic system development trait 3
            blood cell development trait 0
              hematopoiesis trait 0
                leukopoiesis trait 0
                  lymphopoiesis trait 0
                    T cell development trait 0
                      T cell selection trait 0
                        positive T cell selection trait 0
paths to the root