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Term: stem cell population maintenance

Ontology: Biological Process (BP)     ID: GO:0019827

Definition: The process by which an organism or tissue maintains a population of stem cells of a single type. This can be achieved by a number of mechanisms: stem cell asymmetric division maintains stem cell numbers; stem cell symmetric division increases them; maintenance of a stem cell niche maintains the conditions for commitment to the stem cell fate for some types of stem cell; stem cells may arise de novo from other cell types.
 
 
 

Genes Annotated With This Term (Click To View Gene list):

HumanMouseRat
159152145
 
 
 

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