Emont 2022 — abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue

mesothelium

Ontology Term: mesothelial cellCL:0000077
Synonyms Terms that have the same, or nearly the same, meaning as the selected cell type.: mesotheliocyte
Category Class of which the cell type is a subclass.: meso-epithelial cellCL:0002078
Ontology Assessment Disagreements with any aspect of the Cell Ontology.: —
Marker Gene Evidence Gene markers used by researcher to assign this cell annotation.: MSLN
Canonical Marker Genes: MSLN
Negative Marker Genes Genes expected to be absent, or expressed at a notably low level, in these cells, and whose absence supports the assignment of this cell annotation.: —
Rationale: Marker genes for each cell population in the human WAT dataset (Fig. 1d of publication).

Set of Labels Description: Annotation of cell types included in dataset based on prior knowledge & gene expression data.
Annotation Method: manual