snRNA-seq of human retina - retinal ganglion cell subset

PG_OFF

Ontology Term

parasol ganglion cell of retinaCL:4023189

Synonyms

Terms that have the same, or nearly the same, meaning as the selected cell type.

M cell, M ganglion cell

Category

Class of which the cell type is a subclass.

retinal ganglion cellCL:0000740

Ontology Assessment

Disagreements with any aspect of the Cell Ontology.

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Marker Gene Evidence

Gene markers used by researcher to assign this cell annotation.

C8orf34, MGAT5B, WWC1, PLCL1, PROX1, HPGD, COL24A1, GRIP2

Canonical Marker Genes

FABP4

Rationale

99.7%PG-OFF of the Sanes dataset; 96.9%RGC4 of the Shekhar dataset; 88.7%PG_OFF+11.3%Unassigned of the macaque dataset; 52.1%12_ooDS_NT+41.0%Unassigned of the mouse dataset; Known markers are curated from human, macaque, and mouse markers.

Inherited from author_cell_type

Set of Labels Description

A total of 11 retinal ganglion cell clusters were identified from over 399K retinal ganglion cell nuclei in the current atlas. Utilizing previously characterized markers from macaque, 5 clusters can be annotated.

Annotation Method

manual