- SynonymsTerms that have the same, or nearly the same, meaning as the selected cell type.
- germinal center B-cell, germinal center B-lymphocyte, GC B cell, germinal center B lymphocyte, GC B-lymphocyte, GC B-cell, GC B lymphocyte
- CategoryClass of which the cell type is a subclass.
- B cellCL:0000236
- Marker Gene EvidenceGene markers used by researcher to assign this cell annotation.
- STMN1, MKI67, TOP2A, CD79B, SPIB
- Canonical Marker Genes
- BCL6, CD10, AICDA
- Rationale
- This cluster expresses B cell markers CD79B and SPIB in relatively low abundance compared to many housekeeping and proliferative markers, which is why we place them in the Germinal Center, as they could be B cell progenitors. Without AICDA, we decided to call them generally GC but not DZ.