Human Ancestry Ontology

The Human Ancestry Ontology (HANCESTRO) provides a systematic description of the ancestry concepts used in the NHGRI-EBI Catalog of published genome-wide association studies.

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Summary

The Human Ancestry Ontology (HANCESTRO) provides a systematic description of the ancestry concepts used in the NHGRI-EBI Catalog of published genome-wide association studies.

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A non-reasoned base version of the ontology is available at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EBISPOT/hancestro/main/hancestro-base.owl

A version of HANCESTRO with BFO upper classes is also available at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EBISPOT/hancestro/main/hancestro-full.owl

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Products
hancestro.owl HANCESTRO The full version of HANCESTRO in OWL format, with BFO upper hierarchy for easier integration with other ontologies
hancestro-base.owl HANCESTRO Base Base version of HANCESTRO
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