School of Biomedical Sciences Genes & Development Group

Edinburgh Human Developmental Anatomy

This Ontology of Human Developmental Anatomy lists the tissues
present during Carnegie Stages 1-20 (E1-50).

The data in the ontology can be viewed in two ways at this site:

1: standard anatomy For each Carnegie Stage, there is a hierarchical list (with notes and references) of the standard named tissues for analysing normal and abnormal human embryos.

2: detailed anatomy (with additional sub-tissues, but without notes and references). This version provides higher resolution and is designed to handle space-associated data (e.g. mouse gene expression data). A Java viewer for the detailed anatomy ontology (and some histology) is available at the MRC Human Genetics Unit. The ontology in GO format (with EHDA IDs) will soon be available at the GOBO, OBO and MRC-HGU sites.

Comparison chart linking mouse and human developmental stages.

Note on ontology construction

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Publication:
A. Hunter, MH Kaufman, A. McKay, R. Baldock, MW Simmen, and JBL Bard. An ontology of human developmental anatomy. Journal of Anatomy, 203 (2003), 347-355.

This work was funded by the Medical Research Council.