Human ancestry ontology for the NHGRI GWAS Catalog

Prefix

hancestro

Preferred Prefix

HANCESTRO

Keywords

demographics genome-wide association study human genetics obo ontology population genetics

Version

2025-10-14

License

CC-BY-4.0

Links

Homepage Repository OWL

Publications

2018 A standardized framework for representation of ancestry data in genomics studies, with application to the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Human Ancestry Ontology should match this regular expression:
^\d{4}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

0290   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Human Ancestry Ontology should match this regular expression:
^HANCESTRO:\d{4}$

Example CURIE

HANCESTRO:0290

Pattern for RDF URIs

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HANCESTRO_$1

Example RDF URI

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HANCESTRO_0290

Contact

Danielle Welter   0000-0003-1058-2668   daniwelter

Identifier Space Owner

European Bioinformatics Institute

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 8 mappings to external registries for this resource with 3 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 0290 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Human Ancestry Ontology. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.