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Purpose: Determine how best to represent a group of participants under a research study
Who it benefits: Any platform that organizes their participants via study
Use case: For our studies, participants are consented as part of a research study. This organization drives much about how our data is organized from both an access control perspective (granted based on consent groups as part of study) as well as expectations/standards for what data is available with a particular study. One of the major features of our current dataservice is you can retrieve any subset of entities (e.g. participants, specimens, genomic files) given the study ID. We also do data releases on a study basis. Given this, we are also aware of participants that are in multiple studies and it is often desirable to link this data. The ResearchStudy resource appears to be a good starting point. All of our studies are ultimately registered in dbGaP, so having shared way of representing this would be useful.
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