Provide Support for Pulling Entire Family Together

[torstees]

Requester information

• Name: Eric Torstenson

• Affiliations: VUMC/AnVIL

Request Details

• Purpose:

1. Provide a way to easily query/pull all members of a given family based on the family ID
2. Perhaps provide a way to link all family IDs to a research study

• Who it benefits: Researchers that rely on family/pedigree data as a part of their study design

• Use case: A family based study has many families participating in it, each of which has 2 or more individuals. For #1, we would want to be able to quickly identify all members of a given family, and for #2, we may want to identify all family IDs that are participating in the study

[torstees]

There are a handful of possible solutions for Purpose #1

1. Simply adding family ID to the value[x] within the Observation used to annotate the family relationship. This does add a key bit of information to that relationship datapoint, but may not be ideal for pulling data associated with a large family.

2. Creating a group to hold family members. This should be efficient for querying members, except that adding new members will require rebuilding that group structure, which may not be ideal.