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Remove diagnosis column (out of scope for animal properties)
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The purpose of this RECOMMENDED file is to describe properties of participants
such as age, sex, handedness, species, strain, strain_rrid, diagnosis.
such as age, sex, handedness, species, strain, strain_rrid.
If this file exists, it MUST contain the column `participant_id`,
which MUST consist of `sub-<label>` values identifying one row for each participant,
followed by a list of optional columns describing participants.
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`homo sapiens`.

Commonly used *optional* columns in `participants.tsv` files are `age`, `sex`,
`handedness`, `strain`, `strain_rrid` and `diagnosis`. We RECOMMEND to make use
`handedness`, `strain` and `strain_rrid`. We RECOMMEND to make use
of these columns, and in case that you do use them, we RECOMMEND to use the
following values for them:

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- `strain_rrid`: research resource identifier ([RRID](https://scicrunch.org/resources/Organisms/search))
of the strain of the species

- `diagnosis`: string value describing the diagnosis of the participant.
The diagnosis MAY instead be specified in [Sessions files](06-longitudinal-and-multi-site-studies.md#sessions-file)
in case it changes over time.

Throughout BIDS you can indicate missing values with `n/a` (for "not
available").

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the [section on tabular files](02-common-principles.md#tabular-files)).
Such sidecar files are needed to interpret the data, especially so when
optional columns are defined beyond `age`, `sex`, `handedness`, `species`, `strain`,
`strain_rrid` and `diagnosis`, such as `group` in this example, or when a different
and `strain_rrid`, such as `group` in this example, or when a different
age unit is needed (for example, gestational weeks).
If no `units` is provided for age, it will be assumed to be in years relative
to date of birth.
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