Emont 2022 — abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue

LEC

Ontology Term: endothelial cell of lymphatic vesselCL:0002138
Synonyms Terms that have the same, or nearly the same, meaning as the selected cell type.: LEC, lymphatic endothelial cell
Category Class of which the cell type is a subclass.: endothelial cellCL:0000115
Ontology Assessment Disagreements with any aspect of the Cell Ontology.: —
Marker Gene Evidence Gene markers used by researcher to assign this cell annotation.: PROX1
Canonical Marker Genes: PROX1
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