FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term white fat cell differentiation ID (Ontology) GO:0050872 (Gene Ontology)
Definition The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a white adipocyte, an animal connective tissue cell involved in energy storage. White adipocytes have cytoplasmic lipids arranged in a unique vacuole.[ PubMed:12508945 ]
Also Known As "white adipocyte cell differentiation" ; "white adipocyte differentiation"
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   |__fat cell differentiation
       |__white fat cell differentiation
           |__white fat cell differentiation involved in mammary gland fat development
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Reactome:R-HSA-381340 "Transcriptional regulation of white adipocyte differentiation"