Data

Data location

Sandbox

• /finngen/library-red/finngen_R13/kanta_lab_1.0/data/finngen_R13_kanta_lab_1.0.txt.gz in textual TSV-gzipped format (for use with awk, grep, UNIX piping)

• /finngen/library-red/finngen_R13/kanta_lab_1.0/data/finngen_R13_kanta_lab_1.0.parquet in binary Parquet format (for use with Python pandas, R data.frame)

BigQuery

Available in this table: finngen-production-library.sandbox_tools_r12.kanta_r12_v1

Data columns

N.B. The raw data contains a MEASUREMENT_FREE_TEXT column that unfortunately cannot be directly released as it contains data that is potentially sensitive. It contains a mix of numerical measurement values, positive/negative outcomes, outcomes linked to thresholds (e.g. <3ml) and general notes. Our approach has been to extract such data from the original column through a process of cleaning and whitelisting of the field.

Overview

Column	Description	SB	ETL
FINNGENID	Study ID (Pseudonymised ID given to the FinnGen participant)	✓	✓
SEX	Sex of the individual, female or male	✓
EVENT_AGE	Age (in years) at time of event, e.g. 12.012	✓	✓
APPROX_EVENT_DATETIME	Date (randomized) and time (not randomized) of event, e.g. 2020-01-02T07:30 (see details)	✓	✓
TEST_NAME	Short name of the lab test, e.g. p-alat, s-tsh	✓	✓
TEST_ID	Code of the lab test (national or local lab test ID)	✓	✓
TEST_ID_IS_NATIONAL	Whether or not the TEST_ID is using the national lab test code system	✓
OMOP_CONCEPT_ID	OMOP Concept ID mapped from the TEST_ID and MEASUREMENT_UNIT	✓	✓
MEASUREMENT_VALUE	Value of the test measurement	✓	✓
MEASUREMENT_UNIT	Corresponding unit for the test measurement	✓	✓
MEASUREMENT_VALUE_HARMONIZED	Value of the test measurement, after harmonization across the OMOP Concept ID	✓	✓
MEASUREMENT_UNIT_HARMONIZED	Corresponding unit for the harmonized measurement value	✓	✓
TEST_OUTCOME	Label given for the outcome of the test to indicate how it falls against the reference range (see value table)	✓	✓
TEST_OUTCOME_IMPUTED	Imputed test outcome (see value table)	✓
MEASUREMENT_STATUS	Code indicating the status of the lab test measurement (see value table)	✓	✓
REFERENCE_RANGE_GROUP	Reference range for this event, as text	✓
REFERENCE_RANGE_LOW_VALUE	Value for the low bound of the reference range	✓	✓
REFERENCE_RANGE_LOW_UNIT	Corresponding unit for the low bound of the reference range	✓
REFERENCE_RANGE_HIGH_VALUE	Value for the high bound of the reference range	✓	✓
REFERENCE_RANGE_HIGH_UNIT	Corresponding unit for the high bound of the reference range	✓
CODING_SYSTEM_ORG	Derived from CODING_SYSTEM_OID	✓
CODING_SYSTEM_OID	Original name: tutkimuskoodistonjarjestelmaid	✓	✓
TEST_ID_SOURCE	Code of the lab test, as it appeared before preprocessing of the data		✓
TEST_NAME_SOURCE	Short name of the lab test, as it appeared before preprocessing of the data		✓
MEASUREMENT_VALUE_SOURCE	Value of the test measurement, as it appeared before data cleaning		✓
MEASUREMENT_UNIT_SOURCE	Unit of the test measurement, as it appeared before data cleaning		✓
MEASUREMENT_VALUE_EXTRACTED	Value of the test measurement extracted from the MEASUREMENT_FREE_TEXT column
MEASUREMENT_VALUE_MERGED	Harmonized and extracted values merged together
OUTCOME_POS_EXTRACTED	1(pos) or 0 (neg) outcome extracted from the MEASUREMENT_FREE_TEXT column
TEST_OUTCOME_TEXT_EXTRACTED	[<|>]|[VALUE]|[UNIT?] extracted from the MEASUREMENT_FREE_TEXT column

TEST_OUTCOME

This column provides a label comparing the measured value against a reference range.

Value	Description
N	Normal
A	Abnormal
AA	Very abnormal
L	Low
LL	Very low
H	High
HH	Very high

TEST_OUTCOME_IMPUTED

Some rows are missing the TEST_OUTCOME, so an imputed one is provided. The TEST_OUTCOME_IMPUTED is derived by looking at the data from the same OMOP Concept ID for which there are MEASUREMENT_VALUE and TEST_OUTCOME for a minimum (100) number of entries. The process for determining the thresholds are as following. Values with both measurement (harmonized) and outcome are sorted by value, with the outcome labels sorted following the same order. E.g.

Value	OUTCOME
1	L
1	L
1.3	N
...	...
7	N
14	H
15	H

Starting from the lower end, we expect to find mostly low (L) values and then gradually find normal (N) ones. So in order to find the turnover point where Ns become the majority we define a relative measure of # of L entries/ all other entries. In ideal scenarios, this value starts at 100% and start to gradually decline as more Ns (or other entries, like A and H) start to appear. When the relative measure drops under 95% for the last time, we define the threhold there. The same is done from the oppoiste side with H. The summary of the threshold can be found in the repo. In the process we found two kind of anomalies, mainly due to an asymmetric distribution of labels:

• +- inf thresholds. In these cases not enough labels are present at the tails of the distribution. In the algorithm the starting thresholds are defined as such, but they never get updated as the ratio of labels never climbs above the 95% threshold to begin with. This is usually associated with lab values where there is no such thing as L/H (e.g. Triglycerides) or where the labels used ar A instead of H|L

• PROBLEM column. This boolean column indicates when the opposite issue appears, that is we traverse the whole list of values up to the median still being above the 95% threshold and the median value is therefore used as a threshold. This indicates that there's a heavy bias in the distribution of outcome labels and thus one should proceed with caution. Values imputed with these thresholds are labelled with a * , e.g. L* or H*

The content of the column is as following:

Value	Description
N	Imputed Normal
L	Imputed Low
L*	Imputed Low. Less confidence in the imputation due to over-representation of L and H from TEST_OUTCOME
H	Imputed High
H*	Imputed High. Less confidence in the imputation due to over-representation of L and H from TEST_OUTCOME

MEASUREMENT_STATUS

Value	Description
C	Corrected result
F	Final result
R	Unverified result
S	Partial result

Pipeline

The pipeline is available in github (https://github.com/FINNGEN/kanta_lab_preprocessing/) where technical information on how the raw data was processed can be found.

A quick summary:

• duplicate entries are removed (based on id,date,lab test name/code/measurement status & value)

• text is processed to remove spaces and strange characters

• test national codes are mapped to names based on known mappings

• units are cleaned/uniformized and mapped to OMOP based on lab test

• units are harmonized based on OMOP IDs

• Another duplication removal step takes place post harmonization to intercept duplicate entries from different systems (checking for ID,date,harmonized test name,value and status)

Additional dataset: Values extraction analysis

On top of the core kanta data, another data set is released, meant for analysis. The idea behind this file is to focus more on numerical values and to manipulate/remove entries for downstream analysis, like flagging/removing problematic values. This file misses some columns from the original data but also contains new ones for analysis purposes. In this way we can keep separate the pure data munging/harmonization from the numerical elaboration of the data for analysis purposes

Summary

The pipeline is available in github (https://github.com/FINNGEN/kanta_lab_preprocessing/) where technical information on how the raw data was processed can be found.

A quick summary:

• the MEASUREMENT_FREE_TEXT column is manipulated to extract shareable information

  • Where the original measurement value is missing and the free text is available, we attempt to extract numerical values from it if they match certain patterns. After some string manipulation if we're left with a pure number we cast it from string to float and is used to populate the MEASUREMENT_VALUE_EXTRACTED column

  • The text is scanned for pos/neg substrings and through a manual mapping, values are mapped to 1 (pos) or 0 (neg) in a new OUTCOME_POS_EXTRACTED column

  • The text is scanned to look for entries that indicate outcome as a comparison and are structured as such:

    • comparison (Yli/alle/</>)

    • numerical value

    • unit (potentially missing)

    These entries are manipulated in order to be standardized following the format [<|>]|[VALUE]|[UNIT?] so they can be shared safely.

• QCing takes place to remove extracted values that are formatted as dates

Location

/finngen/library-red/finngen_R13/kanta_analysis_1.0/

Like for the full munged data, there are two files:

• finngen_R13_kanta_analysis_1.0.parquet finngen_R13_kanta_analysis_1.0.txt.gz

• finngen_R13_kanta_analysis_1.0.parquet finngen_R13_kanta_analysis_1.0.parquet

Extraction Summary

In the following table one can find a summary of the free text extraction process.

OMOP	N_EXTRACTED	%_EXTRACTED	%_NA_MEASUREMENT	N_POSNEG	%_EXTRACTED	%_NA_OUTCOME	conceptName
OMOP ID	N of extracted numerical values	Percentage of numerical values extracted	Percentage of extracted values that had NA in raw data measurement	N of extracted POS/NEG values	Percentage of POS/NEG extracted values	Percentage of extracted values that had NA in raw data outcome	Concept Name
3026361	2095662	22.6799	100.0000	2	0.0000	100.0000	Erythrocytes [#/volume] in Blood
3018095	118284	22.3749	100.0000	67950	12.8536	6.2384	Leukocytes [#/volume] in Urine

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extraction_summary_names.txt

On top of the core kanta data, another data set is released, meant for analysis. The idea behind this file is to focus more on numerical values and to manipulate/remove entries for downstream analysis, like flagging/removing problematic values. This file misses some columns from the original data but also contains new ones for analysis purposes. In this way we can keep separate the pure data munging/harmonization from the numerical elaboration of the data for analysis purposes

Other reference tables

Test name abbreviations

Test name abbreviations come from different laboratory testing centers around Finland. Some are standardized nationally and some are used only locally in different hospitals and test centers.

We have put a lot of effort into standardizing these to international OHDSI OMOP Concept ID (primarily from LOINC) so we hope that you do not need to interpret them very often! However, in case you have reason to use them, we provide the meaning of most abbreviations here.

Prefixes for lab test name abbreviations

aB	Arterial blood
Af	Puncture fluid
aG	Alveolar gas
Am	Amniotic fluid
As	Ascitic fluid
B	Blood
Bf	Bronchus fluid
Bi	Bile
Bl	Bronchoalveolar lavation
Bm	Bone Marrow
Bo	Bone
Br	Breast
Bu	Bursa
Ca	Cannula/IV port
cB	Capillary blood
Cf	Cervix fluid
Cn	Central nervous system
cU	Collected urine
Cv	Choroid villus
Di	Dialysis fluid
Dj	Duodenal juice
dU	Diurnal urine
E	Erythrocyte
Ex	Sputum
F	Fecal
fB	Fasting blood
Fl	Vaginal fluor
fP	Fasting plasma
fS	Fasting serum
Gi	Gastrointestinal
Gj	Gastric juice
Hb	Hemoglobin
He	Heart
Ki	Kidney
L	Leukocytes
Lf	Lacrimal fluid
Li	Likvor/CSF
Ln	Lymph Node
Lr	Liver
Lu	Lung
Ly	Lymphocytes
M	Muscle
mB	Machine blood
Me	Meconium
Mf	Mammary fluid
Mm	Maternal milk
Mu	Mucosa
Ne	Nerve
Ns	Nasal secretion
nU	Nocturnal urine
P	plasma
Pd	Peritoneal dialysis
Pf	Pleura
Pi	Pituitary gland
Pl	Placenta
Pp	Periodontal pocket
Ps	Pharyngeal secretion
Pt	Patient
Pu	Pus
S	Serum
Sa	Saliva
Se	Secretion
Sk	Skin
Sp	Semen
Sw	Sweat
Sy	Syncytial fluid
T	Thrombocyte
Ts	Tissue
Tu	Tumor
U	Urine
uA	Umbilical arterial blood
Ug	Urogenital
uS	Umbilical serum
uV	Umbilical venous blood
vB	Venous blood
W	Water

Suffixes for lab test name abbreviations

-Ab	Antibody
-AbA	IgA antibody
-AbE	IgE antibody
-AbG	IgG antibody
-AbM	IgM antibody
-Ag	Antigen
-Akt	Activity
-Aktt	Activation products
-Cl	Clearance
-Ct	Control
-D	DNA
-Di	Dialysis
-EVi	Special culture
-EM	Electron Microscopic
-F	Fetal
-Fc	Flow cytometry
-Fr	Fraction
-Gr	Gestational
-IF	Immunofluorescence
-IH	Immunohistochemistry
-Ind	Index
-Ion	Ionized
-Is	Iso enzymes
-ISH	in situ -hybridisation
-Jtk	Follow-up study
-Jvi	Follow-up culture (jatkoviljely)
-Kj	Conjugate
-Lm	Species specificity
-MS	Mass spectrometry
-Nh	Nucleic acid
-O	Qualitative
-Oc	Oligoclonal
-Pa	Long term
-Pse	Screening and categorization
-PT	Rapid test
-R	Exercise stress test
-S	Stimulation
-Sc	Sub classes
-Ty	Typing
-V	Free or unconjugated
-Vi	Microbiology culture (e.g. u-Baktvi = bacterial culture from urine, ps-stravi = Strep A culture in pharayngeal secretion, F-sienVi = fungal culture in stool)
-Vit	Vitamine
-Vr	Staining
-Vt	Point of care (vieritesti), often a rapid test

Reference range terms

Test reference ranges are a free text string that can have a lot of Finnish in them. For those who don’t speak Finnish, we provide here translations of some of the common words you will see in reference ranges:

General terms:

• AIKUISET: Adults

• ALLE: Under/Below

• ALK: Abbreviation for "alkaen", meaning "starting from" or "beginning at"

• ALTISTUMATTOMAT: Unexposed (individuals)

• AAMUNÄYTE: Morning sample

• EDELLEEN: Still, continuing

• FERTIILI-IKÄ: Fertile age

• HOITOALUE: Treatment range

• JA: And

• JÄÄNNÖSPIT: Residual concentration

• KAIKKI: All, everyone

• KATSO: See, look at

• KK: Abbreviation for "kuukausi", meaning month

• KS: Abbreviation for "katso", meaning "see" or "look at"

• KTS: Another abbreviation for "katso"

• KYMENLAAKSONLAB: Kymenlaakso Laboratory (a specific lab in Finland)

• LAPSET: Children

• LEUK: Leukocytes (white blood cells)

• LIER: Likely referring to "lieriöt", meaning casts (in urine analysis)

• MIEHET: Men

• NAISET: Women

• NEGAT: Negative

• NORMAALI: Normal

• OHJEKIRJA: Manual, guidebook

• PAASTO: Fasting

• POJAT: Boys

• POSTMENOPAUSSI: Postmenopausal

• PREMENOPAUSAALISET: Premenopausal

• PUBERT: Puberty

• RASKAUS: Pregnancy

• SUOSITELTAVA: Recommended

• TAVOITE: Target, goal

• TAVOITEARVO: Target value

• TERAP: Therapeutic

• TOKSINEN: Toxic

• TULKINTA: Interpretation

• TUPAKOIMATTOMAT: Non-smokers

• TYTÖT: Girls

• V: Abbreviation for "vuosi", meaning year

• VASTASYNT: Newborn

• VIITEARVO: Reference value

• VKO: Abbreviation for "viikko", meaning week

• VRK: Abbreviation for "vuorokausi", meaning day (24-hour period)

• YLI: Over, above

Age-related terms:

• 0-6PV: 0-6 days

• 1KK-1V: 1 month to 1 year

• 1V-: 1 year and older

• 2-4V: 2-4 years

• 5-10V: 5-10 years

• 11-15V: 11-15 years

• 16V-: 16 years and older

• 18V-: 18 years and older

Medical terms:

• ERYT: Erythrocytes (red blood cells)

• EPIT.SOLUT: Epithelial cells

• FOLLIKK.VAIHE: Follicular phase (of menstrual cycle)

• MAKUU: Lying down (usually referring to blood pressure measurement)

• MENARKEA: Menarche (first menstrual period)

• PYSTY: Standing (usually referring to blood pressure measurement)