Waleed Aamer, Aljazi Al-Maraghi, Najeeb Syed, Geethanjali Devadoss Gandhi, Elbay Aliyev, Alya A Al-Kurbi, Omayma Al-Saei, Muhammad Kohailan, Navaneethakrishnan Krishnamoorthy, Sasirekha Palaniswamy, Khulod Al-Malki, Saleha Abbasi, Nourhen Agrebi, Fatemeh Abbaszadeh, Ammira S Al-Shabeeb Akil, Ramin Badii, Tawfeg Ben-Omran, Bernice Lo, Younes Mokrab, Khalid A Fakhro
BACKGROUND: Genome sequencing of large biobanks from under-represented ancestries provides a valuable resource for the interrogation of Mendelian disease burden at world population level, complementing small-scale familial studies. METHODS: Here, we interrogate 6045 whole genomes from Qatar-a Middle Eastern population with high consanguinity and understudied mutational burden-enrolled at the national Biobank and phenotyped for 58 clinically-relevant quantitative traits...
April 8, 2024: Genome Medicine