This HANCESTRO release includes the following items:
- Replaced deprecated
COB:0000032 (geographic location)
withGAZ:00000448 (geographic location)
. - Added "(1KGP)" suffix to the label for all reference populations from the 1000 Genomes project, and "(GGVP)" to populations from the Gambian Genome Variation Project.
- Added "ancestry" suffix to certain ancestry groups such as "Asian" or "European" in order to differentiate from the new equivalent geography descriptor classes created for the purpose of self-reported ethnicity annotation.
- Added 23 new classes including new geography-based and ethnicity descriptors, as well as several new population descriptors in the general ancestry hierarchy.
- Added synonyms and definitions to a range of existing terms.