Scope and Usage
A Statement is the superclass for any declarative statement. In particular, subclasses of Statment are either
- Supported by evidence (such as VariantInterpretation),
- Evidence themselves (such as AlleleConservation), or
- Both supported by evidence, and providing support to other statements (such as a CriterionAssessment).
Statement is abstract, and is not ever instantiated directly. The purpose of this class is to provide a home for attributes shared across all Statements.
Any statement may be negated using the qualifier attribute. For example, to create a statement saying that a particular allele is not a loss of function allele, the qualifier "NOT" is added to a statement that the allele is a loss of function allele.
Attributes
| Name | Type | Cardinality | Description | IRI | Defined in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| userLabelDictionary | UserLabel | 0..* | An optional label defined by the user. Used for custom entities or to clarify the preferred user label on existing entities with non-preferred labels. | SEPIO:0000422 | Statement |
| outcomeQualifier | string | 0..1 | Use “NOT” as the value of this property to assert that the statement is negated. | SEPIO:0000346 | Statement |
| evidenceLine | EvidenceLine | 0..* | supporting evidence | SEPIO:0000006 | Statement |
| contribution | Contribution | 0..* | The contributions (agent, time and role) made to this entity | SEPIO:0000159 | Statement |
| source | string | 0..* | A string indicating the source of a Statement | DC:source | Statement |
| label | string | 0..1 | A name given to the resource. | RDFS:label | Entity |
| description | string | 0..1 | Description may include but is not limited to: an abstract, a table of contents, a graphical representation, or a free-text account of the resource. | DC:description | Entity |