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Oxford University Press, JAMIA: A Scholarly Journal of Informatics in Health and Biomedicine, 7(27), p. 1110-1115, 2020

DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa061

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Development of the Gender, Sex, and Sexual Orientation ontology: Evaluation and workflow

Journal article published in 2020 by Clair A. Kronk ORCID, Judith W. Dexheimer
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract Objective The study sought to create an integrated vocabulary system that addresses the lack of standardized health terminology in gender and sexual orientation. Materials and Methods We evaluated computational efficiency, coverage, query-based term tagging, randomly selected term tagging, and mappings to existing terminology systems (including ICD (International Classification of Diseases), DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ), SNOMED (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine), MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), and National Cancer Institute Thesaurus). Results We published version 2 of the Gender, Sex, and Sexual Orientation (GSSO) ontology with over 10 000 entries with definitions, a readable hierarchy system, and over 14 000 database mappings. Over 70% of terms had no mapping in any other available ontology. Discussion We created the GSSO and made it publicly available on the National Center for Biomedical Ontology BioPortal and on GitHub. It includes clarifications on over 200 slang terms, 190 pronouns with linked example usages, and over 200 nonbinary and culturally specific gender identities. Conclusions Gender and sexual orientation continue to represent crucial areas of medical practice and research with evolving terminology. The GSSO helps address this gap by providing a centralized data resource.