• 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 ...
    • Thousands of Qatari genomes inform human migration history and improve imputation of Arab haplotypes 

      Razali, Rozaimi Mohamad; Rodriguez-Flores, Juan; Ghorbani, Mohammadmersad; Naeem, Haroon; Aamer, Waleed; ... more authors ( Nature Research , 2021 , Article)
      Arab populations are largely understudied, notably their genetic structure and history. Here we present an in-depth analysis of 6,218 whole genomes from Qatar, revealing extensive diversity as well as genetic ancestries ...
    • Whole-Genome Sequencing of 100 Genomes Identifies a Distinctive Genetic Susceptibility Profile of Qatari Patients with Hypertension 

      Alsamman, Alsamman M.; Almabrazi, Hakeem; Zayed, Hatem ( MDPI , 2022 , Article)
      Essential hypertension (EH) is a leading risk condition for cardiovascular and renal com-plications. While multiple genes are associated with EH, little is known about its genetic etiology. Therefore, this study aimed to ...