#492 Age of Onset revision of hierarchy request
I wonder if you are planning on revisiting and revising the hierarchy of the Clinical Modifier Age of Onset (HP:0003674)?
I am asking because increasingly more specific and significant age ranges associated to onset of a particular disorder is required for mapping patient data eg: >50 years, <16 years, as age data supplied is generally specific and not general. The current hierarchy does not fit this sort of data set, so mapping to the current ‘Age of onset’ hierarchy would only dilute what could be significant data set for patient records associated to a particular disease.
I realise there this is a somewhat tricky area, as there no community standard per se, and HPO have chosen to adopt, in the main, the Oxford Clinical Genetics handbook definitions, which is fine up to a point, but the problem lies in the more specific age ranges that lie within, and intersect these top level terms.
Are there plans for HPO to revisit the Age of Onset? If the top level terms definitions were revised, and then were broken down into more identifiable (even though ‘unofficial’ ranges) then it could address most, if not all of the community needs.
Please do not use this tracker anymore!
The HPO tracker has moved to here: https://github.com/obophenotype/human-phenotype-ontology/issues
I have moved your ticket to https://github.com/obophenotype/human-phenotype-ontology/issues/511
Hope this is ok. I will close this ticket here in sourceforge.
Thanks,
Sebastian