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Add clarification note to gender property in BioSample profile

Open AlasdairGray opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

Add Bioschemas description to the gender property in the BioSample profile to state that it should be used to capture the biological sex of the sample.

Due to the nature of schema.org it does not seem appropriate to make the distinction between biological sex and gender.

AlasdairGray avatar Jun 30 '21 15:06 AlasdairGray

In a later internal meeting it was mentioned that this is most accurate the "genetic sex" in these circumstances.

JonnyJD avatar Jul 02 '21 08:07 JonnyJD