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Data describing 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 component 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 NameAllowed ValuesDescriptionConstraintsCardinality
MIABIS-SAMPLEDONOR-01Sample donor IDCoded StringSample donor ID. Unique ID code of the sample donor within the sample collectionPseudonymised, alphanumeric1
MIABIS-SAMPLEDONOR-02SexEnumerated valuesBiological sex of the sample donor. Can be one of the following values: Male, Female, Unknown, Undifferentiated, Not applicable1
MIABIS-SAMPLEDONOR-03Dataset typeEnumerated valuesThe data categories from which data are available or can be linked to the sample donor. Can be one or more of the following values: Lifestyle 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 dateyyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ssBirth date of the sample donor. 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