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Sample donor entity ​

In current version the sample donor entity is aimed to describe human sample donors only.

Definition ​

Introduced in 2020 (Eklund et al., 2020), the entity Sample donor is a person who is a source of either a biological material or a digital representation of a biological entity such as an image.

Attribute table for Sample donor ​

Attribute CodeAttribute NameDescriptionData TypeAllowed ValuesConstraintsCardinality
MIABIS-SAMPLEDONOR-01Sample donor IDSample donor ID. Unique ID code of the sample donor within the sample collectionStringPseudonymised, alphanumeric1
MIABIS-SAMPLEDONOR-02SexBiological sex of the sample donor.Enumerated valuesMale, Female, Unknown, Undifferentiated, Not applicable1
MIABIS-SAMPLEDONOR-03Dataset typeThe data categories from which data are available or can be linked to the sample donor.Enumerated valuesLifestyle dataset, Environmental dataset, Physiological dataset, Biochemical dataset, Clinical dataset, Psychological dataset, Genomic dataset, Proteomic dataset, Metabolomic dataset, Body (Radiological) image, Whole slide image, Photo image, Genealogical records, Other.0...n
MIABIS-SAMPLEDONOR-04Birth dateBirth date of the sample donor.Datetime, yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss. Can also be partial, for example, YYYY.ISO-standard 8601. Date of birth is required when Event date (MIABIS-EVENT-02) is used, otherwise partial date, as in birth year, can be used0