Browsing Biomedical Sciences by Author "Hussain, Khalid"
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Genetic epidemiology of Woodhouse-Sakati Syndrome in the Greater Middle East region and beyond: a systematic review
Kohil, Amira; Abdallah, Atiyeh M.; Hussain, Khalid; Al-Shafai, Mashael ( BioMed Central Ltd , 2023 , Article Review)Background: Woodhouse-Sakati syndrome (WSS) is a rare, autosomal recessive genetic disorder with variable clinical manifestations mainly affecting the endocrine and nervous systems. The aim of this study was to systematically ... -
Understanding the genetics of early onset obesity in a cohort of children from Qatar.
Mohammed, Idris; Haris, Basma; Al-Barazenji, Tara; Vasudeva, Dhanya; Tomei, Sara; Al Azwani, Iman; Dauleh, Hajar; Shehzad, Saira; Chirayath, Shiga; Mohamadsalih, Ghassan; Petrovski, Goran; Khalifa, Amel; Love, Donald R; Al-Shafai, Mashael; Hussain, Khalid... more authors ... less authors ( Oxford University Press , 2023 , Article)Monogenic obesity is a rare form of obesity due to pathogenic variants in genes implicated in the leptin-melanocortin signaling pathway and accounts for around 5% of severe early onset obesity. Mutations in the genes ...