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Renaming epilepsy syndrome to epilepsy #159

Closed dhimmel closed 8 years ago

dhimmel commented 8 years ago

Project Rephetio uses the Disease Ontology to identify our diseases. Chrissy Hessler, one of the physicians involved in the project, commented that:

A small point- i think we should use the term "epilepsy" rather than "epilepsy syndrome"- the word syndrome implies that the epilepsy is part of a constellation of associated features. Perhaps Ari and Pouya can weigh in.

Hence, I thought I should relay her concern upstream. Does it make sense to rename epilepsy syndrome (DOID:1826) to epilepsy?

elviram commented 8 years ago

Hi Daniel, 'epilepsy' is an exact synonym for 'epilepsy syndrome'. It will be changed from synonym to label on our next commit.