Browsing by Author "Al-Sarraj, Yasser"

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    • A population study of clinically actionable genetic variation affecting drug response from the Middle East 

      Jithesh, Puthen Veettil; Abuhaliqa, Mohammed; Syed, Najeeb; Ahmed, Ikhlak; El Anbari, Mohammed; ... more authors ( Nature Research , 2022 , Article)
      Clinical implementation of pharmacogenomics will help in personalizing drug prescriptions and alleviate the personal and financial burden due to inefficacy and adverse reactions to drugs. However, such implementation is ...

    • Genetic Susceptibility to Infectious Diseases in the Qatari Population 

      Smatti, Maria Khalid; Al-Sarraj, Yasser; Albagha, Omar Yassine, Hadi ( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Poster)
      Background: Infectious diseases (IDs) account for 8% of deaths annually in Qatar, and therefore, represent a significant challenge for public health. Interestingly, the spread and severity of viral infections vary considerably ...

    • Host genetic variants potentially associated with SARS-CoV-2: A multi-population analysis 

      Smatti, Maria K.; Al-Sarraj, Yasser; Albagha, Omar; Yassine, Hadi M. ( Qatar University Press , 2020 , Poster)
      Background: Clinical outcomes of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) showed enormous inter-individual and inter-population differences, possibly ...

    • One Year of SARS-CoV-2: Genomic Characterization of COVID-19 Outbreak in Qatar 

      Benslimane, Fatiha M; Al Khatib, Hebah A; Al-Jamal, Ola; Albatesh, Dana; Boughattas, Sonia; ... more authors ( Frontiers , 2021 , Article)
      Qatar, a country with a strong health system and a diverse population consisting mainly of expatriate residents, has experienced two large waves of COVID-19 outbreak. In this study, we report on 2634 SARS-CoV-2 whole-genome ...

    • Qatar genome: Insights on genomics from the Middle East 

      Mbarek, Hamdi; Devadoss Gandhi, Geethanjali; Selvaraj, Senthil; Al-Muftah, Wadha; Badji, Radja; ... more authors ( Wiley , 2022 , Article)
      Despite recent biomedical breakthroughs and large genomic studies growing momentum, the Middle Eastern population, home to over 400 million people, is underrepresented in the human genome variation databases. Here we ...