• 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 ...
    • Editorial: Personalized medicine and infectious disease management 

      Haddad-Boubaker, Sondes; Mbarek, Hamdi; Yassine, Hadi M. ( Frontiers , 2023 , Other)
      The importance of personalized medicine in the healthcare management of several diseases is well-documented. Still, very little is known about the role of genetics in susceptibility or resistance to infectious diseases ...
    • 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 ...
    • The QChip1 knowledgebase and microarray for precision medicine in Qatar 

      Rodriguez-Flores, Juan L.; Messai-Badji, Radja; Robay, Amal; Temanni, Ramzi; Syed, Najeeb; ... more authors ( Nature Research , 2022 , Article)
      Risk genes for Mendelian (single-gene) disorders (SGDs) are consistent across populations, but pathogenic risk variants that cause SGDs are typically population-private. The goal was to develop "QChip1," an inexpensive ...