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Last uploaded: January 23, 2019
Preferred Name

African

Definitions

Denotes a person with African ancestral origins who self identifies, or is identified, as African. The concept does not refer to those of other ancestry, for example, European and South Asian. In practice, the term mainly refers to people originated from forty-eight sub-Saharan Africa nations; and excudes individuals from North Africa countries, e.g. such as Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia with Arab and Berber ethnicity.

ID

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/EFO_0004561

definition editor

Helen Parkinson

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NCIt:C42331

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http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/efo.owl

label

African

prefixIRI

efo:EFO_0004561

prefLabel

African

textual definition

Denotes a person with African ancestral origins who self identifies, or is identified, as African. The concept does not refer to those of other ancestry, for example, European and South Asian. In practice, the term mainly refers to people originated from forty-eight sub-Saharan Africa nations; and excudes individuals from North Africa countries, e.g. such as Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia with Arab and Berber ethnicity.

subClassOf

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/efo/EFO_0001799

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