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| Orders and Observations Work Group | Maturity Level: 1 | Informative | Use Context: Any | 
URL for this extension:
http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/observation-geneticsGene
Status: draft. Extension maintained by: Health Level Seven International (Clinical Genomics)
A region (or regions) that includes all of the sequence elements necessary to encode a functional transcript. A gene may include regulatory regions, transcribed regions and/or other functional sequence regions (SO:0000704). This element is the official gene symbol approved by the HGNC, which is a short abbreviated form of the gene name (HGNC). LOINC Code: (48018-6).
Context of Use: Use on element: Observation
usage info: insert a list of places where this extension is used
Summary
| Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints  | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
|   extension | 0..1 | CodeableConcept | URL = http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/observation-geneticsGene Gene: A region (or regions) that includes all of the sequence elements necessary to encode a functional transcript. A gene may include regulatory regions, transcribed regions and/or other functional sequence regions ([SO:0000704](http://www.sequenceontology.org/browser/current_svn/term/SO:0000704)). This element is the official gene symbol approved by the HGNC, which is a short abbreviated form of the gene name ([HGNC](http://www.genenames.org)). LOINC Code: ([48018-6](http://loinc.org/48018-6)). Binding: ???? (preferred) Use on element: Observation | |
|  Documentation for this format | ||||
Full Structure
| Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints  | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
|   extension | 0..1 | Extension | URL = http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/observation-geneticsGene Gene: A region (or regions) that includes all of the sequence elements necessary to encode a functional transcript. A gene may include regulatory regions, transcribed regions and/or other functional sequence regions ([SO:0000704](http://www.sequenceontology.org/browser/current_svn/term/SO:0000704)). This element is the official gene symbol approved by the HGNC, which is a short abbreviated form of the gene name ([HGNC](http://www.genenames.org)). LOINC Code: ([48018-6](http://loinc.org/48018-6)). Use on element: Observation | |
|    url | 1..1 | uri | "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/observation-geneticsGene" | |
|    valueCodeableConcept | 0..1 | CodeableConcept | Value of extension Binding: ???? (preferred) | |
|  Documentation for this format | ||||
XML Template
<!-- Gene --><extension xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir" url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/observation-geneticsGene" > <!-- from Element: extension --> <valueCodeableConcept><!-- 0..1 CodeableConcept Value of extension --></valueCodeableConcept> </extension>
JSON Template
{ // Gene
  // from Element: extension
    "extension" : [ //  sliced by value:url  in the specified order, Open ]
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/observation-geneticsGene", // R! 
    "valueCodeableConcept" : { CodeableConcept } //Value of extension
  }
 Summary
| Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints  | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
|   extension | 0..1 | CodeableConcept | URL = http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/observation-geneticsGene Gene: A region (or regions) that includes all of the sequence elements necessary to encode a functional transcript. A gene may include regulatory regions, transcribed regions and/or other functional sequence regions ([SO:0000704](http://www.sequenceontology.org/browser/current_svn/term/SO:0000704)). This element is the official gene symbol approved by the HGNC, which is a short abbreviated form of the gene name ([HGNC](http://www.genenames.org)). LOINC Code: ([48018-6](http://loinc.org/48018-6)). Binding: ???? (preferred) Use on element: Observation | |
|  Documentation for this format | ||||
Full Structure
| Name | Flags | Card. | Type | Description & Constraints  | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
|   extension | 0..1 | Extension | URL = http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/observation-geneticsGene Gene: A region (or regions) that includes all of the sequence elements necessary to encode a functional transcript. A gene may include regulatory regions, transcribed regions and/or other functional sequence regions ([SO:0000704](http://www.sequenceontology.org/browser/current_svn/term/SO:0000704)). This element is the official gene symbol approved by the HGNC, which is a short abbreviated form of the gene name ([HGNC](http://www.genenames.org)). LOINC Code: ([48018-6](http://loinc.org/48018-6)). Use on element: Observation | |
|    url | 1..1 | uri | "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/observation-geneticsGene" | |
|    valueCodeableConcept | 0..1 | CodeableConcept | Value of extension Binding: ???? (preferred) | |
|  Documentation for this format | ||||
XML Template
<!-- Gene --><extension xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir" url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/observation-geneticsGene" > <!-- from Element: extension --> <valueCodeableConcept><!-- 0..1 CodeableConcept Value of extension --></valueCodeableConcept> </extension>
JSON Template
{ // Gene
  // from Element: extension
    "extension" : [ //  sliced by value:url  in the specified order, Open ]
    "url" : "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/observation-geneticsGene", // R! 
    "valueCodeableConcept" : { CodeableConcept } //Value of extension
  }
 
Constraints