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Genetic Epidemiology of Primary Congenital Glaucoma in the 22 Arab Countries: A Systematic Review.
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Taylor and Francis
, 2021 , Article)
Primary congenital glaucoma (PCG) is a rare glaucoma type that develops in early infantile period and contributes to an elevated pressure on ocular cavity. Variants in gene are the most encountered in PCG cases. The ...
Genetic epidemiology of ovarian cancer in the 22 Arab countries: A systematic review.
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Elsevier
, 2019 , Article)
Ovarian cancer (OC) is a common disease among Arabs, with one of the highest incidences in the world. OC is underdiagnosed, underreported, and mostly reported with breast cancer. This study aimed to conduct a systematic ...
Canavan disease: an Arab scenario.
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
The autosomal recessive Canavan disease (CD) is a neurological disorder that begins in infancy. CD is caused by mutations in the gene encoding the ASPA enzyme. It has been reported with high frequency in patients with ...
Spectrum of mutations of familial hypercholesterolemia in the 22 Arab countries.
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Elsevier
, 2018 , Article)
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an inherited genetic disorder of lipid metabolism characterized by a high serum LDL-cholesterol profile and xanthoma formation, and FH increases the risk of premature atherosclerosis ...
Genetic Epidemiology of Hearing Loss in the 22 Arab Countries: A Systematic Review
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Wolters Kluwer Health
, 2019 , Article)
Hearing loss (HL) is a heterogeneous condition that causes partial or complete hearing impairment. Hundreds of variants in more than 60 genes have been reported to be associated with Hereditary HL (HHL). The HHL prevalence ...
The Arab genome: Health and wealth
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2016 , Article)
The 22 Arab nations have a unique genetic structure, which reflects both conserved and diverse gene pools due to the prevalent endogamous and consanguineous marriage culture and the long history of admixture among different ...
Immunogenetics of Celiac Disease: A focus on Arab countries.
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Bentham Science Publishers
, 2019 , Article)
Celiac Disease (CD) is a complex immunogenic disease mainly triggered by gluten intake in genetically susceptible individuals with a prevalence of 1 in 100-300. CD results from the interplay between genetic and environmental ...
The spectrum of beta-thalassemia mutations in the 22 Arab countries: a systematic review
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Expert Reviews (formerly Future Drugs) / Taylor and Francis
, 2020 , Article)
To investigate the mutational spectrum in gene in Arab patients with Beta-Thalassemia (β-thal). Authors searched five databases (PubMed, Science Direct, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar) from the time of inception ...
Genetic Epidemiology of Glucose-6-Dehydrogenase Deficiency in the Arab World
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Nature Publishing Group
, 2016 , Article)
A systematic search was implemented using four literature databases (PubMed, Embase, Science Direct and Web of Science) to capture all the causative mutations of Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency (G6PDD) ...