---
id: "omim_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["medical", "science"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 80
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/omim_id"
---

# OMIM number (`omim_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.

Six-digit number of an entry in Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, the catalogue of human genes and genetic disorders run by Johns Hopkins University.

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

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

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

## Examples

- `143100` — Huntington's disease
- `614371` — dengue fever

## Mappings

- bioregistry: `omim`
- wikidata: `P492`

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Mendelian_Inheritance_in_Man>
- doc: <https://www.omim.org/>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P492>

## Quality

Score 80/100. Missing: negative example, translation, detector coverage.

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