---
id: "gwas_catalog_study_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["science", "medical"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 78
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/gwas_catalog_study_id"
---

# GWAS Catalog study accession (`gwas_catalog_study_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Accession of a study in the GWAS Catalog, the EMBL-EBI database of published genome-wide association studies and their SNP-trait associations. It is GCST and six or more digits.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Scientific (science), Medical/pharma identifiers (medical)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^GCST\d{6}\d*$
```

## Examples

- `GCST000035` — GWAS Catalog study; Bioregistry example
- `GCST35` (invalid example) — Fewer than six digits

## Mappings

- bioregistry: `gcst`

## Sources

- doc: <https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/>
- other: <https://bioregistry.io/registry/gcst>

## Quality

Score 78/100. Missing: second example, translation, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/gwas_catalog_study_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/science/gwas_catalog_study_id.yaml>