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Enum: FamilyRelationship

Family relationships used in pedigree and family history documentation

URI: valuesets:FamilyRelationship

Permissible Values

Value Meaning Description
PARENT HL7:v3-RoleCode#PRN The player of the role is one who begets, gives birth to, or nurtures and rai...
MOTHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#MTH The player of the role is a female who conceives, gives birth to, or raises a...
FATHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#FTH The player of the role is a male who begets or raises or nurtures the scoping...
NATURAL_MOTHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#NMTH The player of the role is a female who conceives or gives birth to the scopin...
NATURAL_FATHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#NFTH The player of the role is a male who begets the scoping entity (child)
ADOPTIVE_PARENT HL7:v3-RoleCode#ADOPTP The player of the role (parent) has taken the scoper (child) into their famil...
ADOPTIVE_MOTHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#ADOPTM The player of the role (mother) is a female who has taken the scoper (child) ...
ADOPTIVE_FATHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#ADOPTF The player of the role (father) is a male who has taken the scoper (child) in...
STEP_PARENT HL7:v3-RoleCode#STPPRN The player of the role is the spouse of the scoping person's parent and not t...
STEP_MOTHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#STPMTH The player of the role is the female spouse of the scoping person's parent an...
STEP_FATHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#STPFTH The player of the role is the male spouse of the scoping person's parent and ...
FOSTER_PARENT HL7:v3-RoleCode#PRNFOST The player of the role (parent) who is a state-certified caregiver responsibl...
GESTATIONAL_MOTHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#GESTM The player is a female whose womb carries the fetus of the scoper
SIBLING HL7:v3-RoleCode#SIB The player of the role shares one or both parents in common with the scoping ...
BROTHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#BRO The player of the role is a male sharing one or both parents with the scoping...
SISTER HL7:v3-RoleCode#SIS The player of the role is a female sharing one or both parents with the scopi...
NATURAL_BROTHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#NBRO The player of the role is a male related to the scoping entity by sharing onl...
NATURAL_SISTER HL7:v3-RoleCode#NSIS The player of the role is a female related to the scoping entity by sharing o...
HALF_BROTHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#HBRO The player of the role is a male related to the scoping entity by sharing onl...
HALF_SISTER HL7:v3-RoleCode#HSIS The player of the role is a female related to the scoping entity by sharing o...
STEP_BROTHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#STPBRO The player of the role is a male child of the scoping person's stepparent
STEP_SISTER HL7:v3-RoleCode#STPSIS The player of the role is a female child of the scoping person's stepparent
TWIN HL7:v3-RoleCode#TWIN The scoper and player were carried in the same womb and delivered in the same...
TWIN_BROTHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#TWINBRO The player of the role is a male born from the same pregnancy as the scoping ...
TWIN_SISTER HL7:v3-RoleCode#TWINSIS The player of the role is a female born from the same pregnancy as the scopin...
FRATERNAL_TWIN HL7:v3-RoleCode#FTWIN The player of the role is born from the same pregnancy as the scoping entity ...
IDENTICAL_TWIN HL7:v3-RoleCode#ITWIN The player of the role is born from the same pregnancy as the scoping entity ...
CHILD HL7:v3-RoleCode#CHILD The player of the role is a child of the scoping entity
SON HL7:v3-RoleCode#SON The player of the role is a male offspring of the scoping entity (parent)
DAUGHTER HL7:v3-RoleCode#DAU The player of the role is a female offspring of the scoping entity (parent)
NATURAL_CHILD HL7:v3-RoleCode#NCHILD The player of the role is an offspring of the scoping entity as determined by...
ADOPTIVE_CHILD HL7:v3-RoleCode#CHLDADOPT The player of the role is a child taken into a family through legal means and...
FOSTER_CHILD HL7:v3-RoleCode#CHLDFOST The player of the role is a child receiving parental care and nurture from th...
STEP_CHILD HL7:v3-RoleCode#STPCHLD The player of the role is a child of the scoping person's spouse by a previou...
GRANDPARENT HL7:v3-RoleCode#GRPRN The player of the role is a parent of the scoping person's mother or father
GRANDMOTHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#GRMTH The player of the role is the mother of the scoping person's mother or father
GRANDFATHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#GRFTH The player of the role is the father of the scoping person's mother or father
MATERNAL_GRANDMOTHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#MGRMTH The player of the role is the mother of the scoping person's mother
MATERNAL_GRANDFATHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#MGRFTH The player of the role is the father of the scoping person's mother
PATERNAL_GRANDMOTHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#PGRMTH The player of the role is the mother of the scoping person's father
PATERNAL_GRANDFATHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#PGRFTH The player of the role is the father of the scoping person's father
GRANDCHILD HL7:v3-RoleCode#GRNDCHILD The player of the role is a child of the scoping person's son or daughter
GRANDSON HL7:v3-RoleCode#GRNDSN The player of the role is a son of the scoping person's son or daughter
GRANDDAUGHTER HL7:v3-RoleCode#GRNDDAU The player of the role is a daughter of the scoping person's son or daughter
AUNT HL7:v3-RoleCode#AUNT The player of the role is a sister of the scoping person's mother or father
UNCLE HL7:v3-RoleCode#UNCLE The player of the role is a brother of the scoping person's mother or father
MATERNAL_AUNT HL7:v3-RoleCode#MAUNT The player of the role is a sister of the scoping person's mother
MATERNAL_UNCLE HL7:v3-RoleCode#MUNCLE The player of the role is a brother of the scoping person's mother
PATERNAL_AUNT HL7:v3-RoleCode#PAUNT The player of the role is a sister of the scoping person's father
PATERNAL_UNCLE HL7:v3-RoleCode#PUNCLE The player of the role is a brother of the scoping person's father
COUSIN HL7:v3-RoleCode#COUSN The player of the role is a relative descended from a common ancestor, such a...
MATERNAL_COUSIN HL7:v3-RoleCode#MCOUSN The player of the role is a child of a maternal aunt or uncle of the scoping ...
PATERNAL_COUSIN HL7:v3-RoleCode#PCOUSN The player of the role is a child of a paternal aunt or uncle of the scoping ...
NIECE HL7:v3-RoleCode#NIECE The player of the role is a daughter of the scoping person's brother or siste...
NEPHEW HL7:v3-RoleCode#NEPHEW The player of the role is a son of the scoping person's brother or sister or ...
SPOUSE HL7:v3-RoleCode#SPS The player of the role is a marriage partner of the scoping person
HUSBAND HL7:v3-RoleCode#HUSB The player of the role is a man joined to a woman (scoping person) in marriag...
WIFE HL7:v3-RoleCode#WIFE The player of the role is a woman joined to a man (scoping person) in marriag...
DOMESTIC_PARTNER HL7:v3-RoleCode#DOMPART The player of the role cohabits with the scoping person but is not the scopin...
GREAT_GRANDPARENT HL7:v3-RoleCode#GGRPRN The player of the role is a grandparent of the scoping person's mother or fat...
GREAT_GRANDMOTHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#GGRMTH The player of the role is a grandmother of the scoping person's mother or fat...
GREAT_GRANDFATHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#GGRFTH The player of the role is a grandfather of the scoping person's mother or fat...
MOTHER_IN_LAW HL7:v3-RoleCode#MTHINLAW The player of the role is the mother of the scoping person's spouse
FATHER_IN_LAW HL7:v3-RoleCode#FTHINLAW The player of the role is the father of the scoping person's spouse
DAUGHTER_IN_LAW HL7:v3-RoleCode#DAUINLAW The player of the role is the wife of scoping person's son
SON_IN_LAW HL7:v3-RoleCode#SONINLAW The player of the role is the husband of scoping person's daughter
BROTHER_IN_LAW HL7:v3-RoleCode#BROINLAW The player of the role is a brother of the scoping person's spouse, or the hu...
SISTER_IN_LAW HL7:v3-RoleCode#SISINLAW The player of the role is a sister of the scoping person's spouse, or the wif...
FAMILY_MEMBER HL7:v3-RoleCode#FAMMEMB A relationship between two people characterizing their "familial" relationshi...
EXTENDED_FAMILY_MEMBER HL7:v3-RoleCode#EXT Description of an extended family member
SIGNIFICANT_OTHER HL7:v3-RoleCode#SIGOTHR A person who is important to one's well being; especially a spouse or one in ...

Slots

Name Description
family_relationship Relationship of a family member to the subject

Identifier and Mapping Information

Schema Source

  • from schema: https://w3id.org/linkml/valuesets

LinkML Source

name: FamilyRelationship
description: Family relationships used in pedigree and family history documentation
from_schema: https://w3id.org/linkml/valuesets
source: https://terminology.hl7.org/2.1.0/ValueSet-v3-FamilyMember.html
rank: 1000
permissible_values:
  PARENT:
    text: PARENT
    description: The player of the role is one who begets, gives birth to, or nurtures
      and raises the scoping entity (child)
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#PRN
  MOTHER:
    text: MOTHER
    description: The player of the role is a female who conceives, gives birth to,
      or raises and nurtures the scoping entity (child)
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#MTH
  FATHER:
    text: FATHER
    description: The player of the role is a male who begets or raises or nurtures
      the scoping entity (child)
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#FTH
  NATURAL_MOTHER:
    text: NATURAL_MOTHER
    description: The player of the role is a female who conceives or gives birth to
      the scoping entity (child)
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#NMTH
  NATURAL_FATHER:
    text: NATURAL_FATHER
    description: The player of the role is a male who begets the scoping entity (child)
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#NFTH
  ADOPTIVE_PARENT:
    text: ADOPTIVE_PARENT
    description: The player of the role (parent) has taken the scoper (child) into
      their family through legal means and raises them as his or her own child
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#ADOPTP
  ADOPTIVE_MOTHER:
    text: ADOPTIVE_MOTHER
    description: The player of the role (mother) is a female who has taken the scoper
      (child) into their family through legal means and raises them as her own child
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#ADOPTM
  ADOPTIVE_FATHER:
    text: ADOPTIVE_FATHER
    description: The player of the role (father) is a male who has taken the scoper
      (child) into their family through legal means and raises them as his own child
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#ADOPTF
  STEP_PARENT:
    text: STEP_PARENT
    description: The player of the role is the spouse of the scoping person's parent
      and not the scoping person's natural parent
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#STPPRN
  STEP_MOTHER:
    text: STEP_MOTHER
    description: The player of the role is the female spouse of the scoping person's
      parent and not the scoping person's natural mother
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#STPMTH
  STEP_FATHER:
    text: STEP_FATHER
    description: The player of the role is the male spouse of the scoping person's
      parent and not the scoping person's natural father
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#STPFTH
  FOSTER_PARENT:
    text: FOSTER_PARENT
    description: The player of the role (parent) who is a state-certified caregiver
      responsible for the scoper (child)
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#PRNFOST
  GESTATIONAL_MOTHER:
    text: GESTATIONAL_MOTHER
    description: The player is a female whose womb carries the fetus of the scoper
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#GESTM
  SIBLING:
    text: SIBLING
    description: The player of the role shares one or both parents in common with
      the scoping entity
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#SIB
  BROTHER:
    text: BROTHER
    description: The player of the role is a male sharing one or both parents with
      the scoping entity
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#BRO
  SISTER:
    text: SISTER
    description: The player of the role is a female sharing one or both parents with
      the scoping entity
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#SIS
  NATURAL_BROTHER:
    text: NATURAL_BROTHER
    description: The player of the role is a male related to the scoping entity by
      sharing only the same natural parents
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#NBRO
  NATURAL_SISTER:
    text: NATURAL_SISTER
    description: The player of the role is a female related to the scoping entity
      by sharing only the same natural parents
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#NSIS
  HALF_BROTHER:
    text: HALF_BROTHER
    description: The player of the role is a male related to the scoping entity by
      sharing only one biological parent
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#HBRO
  HALF_SISTER:
    text: HALF_SISTER
    description: The player of the role is a female related to the scoping entity
      by sharing only one biological parent
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#HSIS
  STEP_BROTHER:
    text: STEP_BROTHER
    description: The player of the role is a male child of the scoping person's stepparent
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#STPBRO
  STEP_SISTER:
    text: STEP_SISTER
    description: The player of the role is a female child of the scoping person's
      stepparent
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#STPSIS
  TWIN:
    text: TWIN
    description: The scoper and player were carried in the same womb and delivered
      in the same birth
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#TWIN
  TWIN_BROTHER:
    text: TWIN_BROTHER
    description: The player of the role is a male born from the same pregnancy as
      the scoping entity
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#TWINBRO
  TWIN_SISTER:
    text: TWIN_SISTER
    description: The player of the role is a female born from the same pregnancy as
      the scoping entity
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#TWINSIS
  FRATERNAL_TWIN:
    text: FRATERNAL_TWIN
    description: The player of the role is born from the same pregnancy as the scoping
      entity but does not share the same genotype
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#FTWIN
  IDENTICAL_TWIN:
    text: IDENTICAL_TWIN
    description: The player of the role is born from the same pregnancy as the scoping
      entity and shares the same genotype
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#ITWIN
  CHILD:
    text: CHILD
    description: The player of the role is a child of the scoping entity
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#CHILD
  SON:
    text: SON
    description: The player of the role is a male offspring of the scoping entity
      (parent)
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#SON
  DAUGHTER:
    text: DAUGHTER
    description: The player of the role is a female offspring of the scoping entity
      (parent)
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#DAU
  NATURAL_CHILD:
    text: NATURAL_CHILD
    description: The player of the role is an offspring of the scoping entity as determined
      by birth
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#NCHILD
  ADOPTIVE_CHILD:
    text: ADOPTIVE_CHILD
    description: The player of the role is a child taken into a family through legal
      means and raised by the scoping person (parent) as his or her own child
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#CHLDADOPT
  FOSTER_CHILD:
    text: FOSTER_CHILD
    description: The player of the role is a child receiving parental care and nurture
      from the scoping person (parent) but not related to him or her through legal
      or blood relationship
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#CHLDFOST
  STEP_CHILD:
    text: STEP_CHILD
    description: The player of the role is a child of the scoping person's spouse
      by a previous union
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#STPCHLD
  GRANDPARENT:
    text: GRANDPARENT
    description: The player of the role is a parent of the scoping person's mother
      or father
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#GRPRN
  GRANDMOTHER:
    text: GRANDMOTHER
    description: The player of the role is the mother of the scoping person's mother
      or father
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#GRMTH
  GRANDFATHER:
    text: GRANDFATHER
    description: The player of the role is the father of the scoping person's mother
      or father
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#GRFTH
  MATERNAL_GRANDMOTHER:
    text: MATERNAL_GRANDMOTHER
    description: The player of the role is the mother of the scoping person's mother
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#MGRMTH
  MATERNAL_GRANDFATHER:
    text: MATERNAL_GRANDFATHER
    description: The player of the role is the father of the scoping person's mother
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#MGRFTH
  PATERNAL_GRANDMOTHER:
    text: PATERNAL_GRANDMOTHER
    description: The player of the role is the mother of the scoping person's father
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#PGRMTH
  PATERNAL_GRANDFATHER:
    text: PATERNAL_GRANDFATHER
    description: The player of the role is the father of the scoping person's father
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#PGRFTH
  GRANDCHILD:
    text: GRANDCHILD
    description: The player of the role is a child of the scoping person's son or
      daughter
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#GRNDCHILD
  GRANDSON:
    text: GRANDSON
    description: The player of the role is a son of the scoping person's son or daughter
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#GRNDSN
  GRANDDAUGHTER:
    text: GRANDDAUGHTER
    description: The player of the role is a daughter of the scoping person's son
      or daughter
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#GRNDDAU
  AUNT:
    text: AUNT
    description: The player of the role is a sister of the scoping person's mother
      or father
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#AUNT
  UNCLE:
    text: UNCLE
    description: The player of the role is a brother of the scoping person's mother
      or father
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#UNCLE
  MATERNAL_AUNT:
    text: MATERNAL_AUNT
    description: The player of the role is a sister of the scoping person's mother
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#MAUNT
  MATERNAL_UNCLE:
    text: MATERNAL_UNCLE
    description: The player of the role is a brother of the scoping person's mother
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#MUNCLE
  PATERNAL_AUNT:
    text: PATERNAL_AUNT
    description: The player of the role is a sister of the scoping person's father
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#PAUNT
  PATERNAL_UNCLE:
    text: PATERNAL_UNCLE
    description: The player of the role is a brother of the scoping person's father
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#PUNCLE
  COUSIN:
    text: COUSIN
    description: The player of the role is a relative descended from a common ancestor,
      such as a grandparent, by two or more steps in a diverging line
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#COUSN
  MATERNAL_COUSIN:
    text: MATERNAL_COUSIN
    description: The player of the role is a child of a maternal aunt or uncle of
      the scoping person
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#MCOUSN
  PATERNAL_COUSIN:
    text: PATERNAL_COUSIN
    description: The player of the role is a child of a paternal aunt or uncle of
      the scoping person
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#PCOUSN
  NIECE:
    text: NIECE
    description: The player of the role is a daughter of the scoping person's brother
      or sister or of the brother or sister of the scoping person's spouse
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#NIECE
  NEPHEW:
    text: NEPHEW
    description: The player of the role is a son of the scoping person's brother or
      sister or of the brother or sister of the scoping person's spouse
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#NEPHEW
  SPOUSE:
    text: SPOUSE
    description: The player of the role is a marriage partner of the scoping person
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#SPS
  HUSBAND:
    text: HUSBAND
    description: The player of the role is a man joined to a woman (scoping person)
      in marriage
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#HUSB
  WIFE:
    text: WIFE
    description: The player of the role is a woman joined to a man (scoping person)
      in marriage
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#WIFE
  DOMESTIC_PARTNER:
    text: DOMESTIC_PARTNER
    description: The player of the role cohabits with the scoping person but is not
      the scoping person's spouse
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#DOMPART
  GREAT_GRANDPARENT:
    text: GREAT_GRANDPARENT
    description: The player of the role is a grandparent of the scoping person's mother
      or father
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#GGRPRN
  GREAT_GRANDMOTHER:
    text: GREAT_GRANDMOTHER
    description: The player of the role is a grandmother of the scoping person's mother
      or father
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#GGRMTH
  GREAT_GRANDFATHER:
    text: GREAT_GRANDFATHER
    description: The player of the role is a grandfather of the scoping person's mother
      or father
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#GGRFTH
  MOTHER_IN_LAW:
    text: MOTHER_IN_LAW
    description: The player of the role is the mother of the scoping person's spouse
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#MTHINLAW
  FATHER_IN_LAW:
    text: FATHER_IN_LAW
    description: The player of the role is the father of the scoping person's spouse
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#FTHINLAW
  DAUGHTER_IN_LAW:
    text: DAUGHTER_IN_LAW
    description: The player of the role is the wife of scoping person's son
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#DAUINLAW
  SON_IN_LAW:
    text: SON_IN_LAW
    description: The player of the role is the husband of scoping person's daughter
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#SONINLAW
  BROTHER_IN_LAW:
    text: BROTHER_IN_LAW
    description: The player of the role is a brother of the scoping person's spouse,
      or the husband of the scoping person's sister, or the husband of a sister of
      the scoping person's spouse
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#BROINLAW
  SISTER_IN_LAW:
    text: SISTER_IN_LAW
    description: The player of the role is a sister of the scoping person's spouse,
      or the wife of the scoping person's brother, or the wife of a brother of the
      scoping person's spouse
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#SISINLAW
  FAMILY_MEMBER:
    text: FAMILY_MEMBER
    description: A relationship between two people characterizing their "familial"
      relationship
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#FAMMEMB
  EXTENDED_FAMILY_MEMBER:
    text: EXTENDED_FAMILY_MEMBER
    description: Description of an extended family member
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#EXT
  SIGNIFICANT_OTHER:
    text: SIGNIFICANT_OTHER
    description: A person who is important to one's well being; especially a spouse
      or one in a similar relationship
    meaning: HL7:v3-RoleCode#SIGOTHR