# OnCo record differentiation (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/differentiation/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "differentiation" ;
  schema:name "Differentiation"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "differentiated"@en, "well-differentiated"@en, "poorly differentiated"@en, "poorly-differentiated"@en, "undifferentiated"@en, "dedifferentiation"@en, "dedifferentiated"@en, "de-differentiation"@en, "lineage"@en, "lineage plasticity"@en, "cell of origin"@en ;
  schema:description "How closely a cancer cell still resembles the mature, specialised tissue it came from. Well-differentiated tumours look like their parent tissue and tend to behave better; poorly differentiated ones look primitive and grow faster."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/differentiation/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_differentiation> ;
  owl:sameAs <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q210861> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_differentiation> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/tumour-grade/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/histology/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/stem-cell/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/resistance/>, <https://onco.cc/pathways/cancer-stem-cells-plasticity/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/nsclc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/sclc/> .