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Document our different usage of the SNOMED term for "Indeterminate sex" #119

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alyssadai opened this issue Nov 3, 2023 · 1 comment
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alyssadai commented Nov 3, 2023

We decided to support the sex options male / female / other to align with BIDS-allowed sex values, but SNOMED (also MEDRA, NIDM) do not have a good term for "other sex". As a workaround, we are using the SNOMED ID for "Indeterminate sex" as a stand-in for "some sex other than male or female", even though the former is quite different conceptually since it refers to a specific biological finding.

We should explicitly document the fact that we use the Indeterminate sex term to mean "other sex" in our tools for lack of a better alternative, in case someone tries to navigate to the term URL and is like 🤔, here.

We could also maybe reach out to the NIDM/BIDS folks to see if they have or would be willing to consider supporting these sex concepts in their own namespace.

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