The Clinical Measurement Ontology (CMO), Measurement Methods Ontology (MMO), and Experimental Condition Ontology (XCO) are currently being developed at the Rat Genome Database. For more information about these vocabularies please see Shimoyama et al. Three ontologies to define phenotype measurement data. Front Genet. 2012;3:87. Epub 2012 May 28 or contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).
A calculated measurement in which the difference in the weight of the body of an organism between two time points or two conditions is divided by the total weight of the body of the organism at the second time point or under the second condition, and presented as a ratio, fraction, quotient or percentage.
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ratio of change in body weight to final body weight