appears_in: []
contact:
  email: dwelter.ontologist@gmail.com
  github: daniwelter
  name: Danielle Welter
  orcid: 0000-0003-1058-2668
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: Human ancestry ontology for the NHGRI GWAS Catalog
download_owl: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/hancestro.owl
example: 0290
example_extras: []
homepage: https://ebispot.github.io/hancestro/
keywords:
- demographics
- genome-wide association study
- human genetics
- obo
- ontology
- population genetics
license: CC-BY-4.0
mappings:
  aberowl: HANCESTRO
  biolink: HANCESTRO
  bioportal: HANCESTRO
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.rja8qp
  obofoundry: hancestro
  ols: hancestro
  ontobee: HANCESTRO
  wikidata.entity: Q81661647
name: Human Ancestry Ontology
owners:
- name: European Bioinformatics Institute
  partnered: false
  ror: 02catss52
pattern: ^\d{4}$
preferred_prefix: HANCESTRO
prefix: hancestro
providers:
- code: legacy
  description: Legacy URI
  homepage: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ancestro
  name: Legacy
  uri_format: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ancestro/ancestro_$1
publications:
- doi: 10.1186/s13059-018-1396-2
  pmc: PMC5815218
  pubmed: '29448949'
  title: A standardized framework for representation of ancestry data in genomics
    studies, with application to the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog
  year: 2018
rdf_uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HANCESTRO_$1
repository: https://github.com/EBISPOT/ancestro
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HANCESTRO_$1
version: '2025-10-14'
