- From: Kei Cheung <kei.cheung@yale.edu>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:01:04 -0500
- To: Chimezie Ogbuji <ogbujic@bio.ri.ccf.org>
- Cc: Nigam Shah <nigam@stanford.edu>, public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
Hi, Another source you might want to look into is ALFRED (Allele Frequency Database): http://alfred.med.yale.edu/alfred/entity.asp?condition=populations On the page, you can also click on the "ALFRED Georgraphic Regions Map" link to see how the regions are divided on the world map. Northern Africa, which is not defined in dbSNP, is a specific example since the individuals belonging to this population are mostly more recent migrants from the middle East and reflect "out of Africa" gene frequencies. Sometimes it's not a trivial issue to establish mapping between populations across different databases. This might also be an interesting use case for HCLS in the context of SNP's. Best, -Kei Chimezie Ogbuji wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Nigam Shah wrote: > >> I am trying to find a comprehensive terminology/term-list for >> race/ethnicity and population descriptions. For example, dbSNP has a >> "population type" which is different from what Hapmap uses. I am >> looking for something beyond the usual, white/african/pacific islander >> etc that come on govt forms. (a terminology that would have Ashkenazi >> Jews for example). > > > We were faced with a similar question and I had suggested HL7 RIM's > raceCode and ethnicGroupCode at the time: > > http://www.hl7.org/library/data-model/RIM/C30202/Race.htm#C-0-D14914-cpt > http://www.hl7.org/library/data-model/RIM/C30202/Ethnicity.htm#C-0-D15836-cpt > > > Neither includes Ashkenazi Jews, but it is a start, anyways. > > Chimezie Ogbuji > Lead Systems Analyst > Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery > Cleveland Clinic Foundation > 9500 Euclid Avenue/ W26 > Cleveland, Ohio 44195 > Office: (216)444-8593 > ogbujic@ccf.org >
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