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Bahrain Preconception Expanded Carrier-Screening Pilot
Retrospective analysis of NGS-based expanded carrier screening among couples with reproductive challenges or positive personal/family genetic history.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Bahrain
- Project type
- retrospective NGS carrier-screening pilot
- Research domain
- reproductive genetics and carrier screening
- Years
- 2015–2024
- Lifecycle status
- Published study
- Status basis
- Peer-reviewed publication verified for the v0.2 working batch.
- Scale
- Retrospective analysis of NGS-based expanded carrier screening among couples with reproductive challenges or positive personal/family genetic history.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- Partner organizations
- Not stated
- Organism / population
- 30 couples seen at the Genetic Disease Clinic in Bahrain between 2015 and 2024
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- expanded carrier screening
- next-generation sequencing
Data access
Peer-reviewed aggregate study results; no open participant-level sequence repository identified in the verification pass.
Identifiers
- DOI
10.1186/s12884-024-06878-1 - PMID
39425040 - PMCID
PMC11490169
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Distinct Bahrain NGS carrier-screening study absent by DOI/PMID/source from canonical v0.1 and relevant to regional genomic-service use.
Editorial note
Clinic-selected pilot cohort; do not generalize carrier frequencies to the full Bahraini population.
Sources
- peer-reviewed publication Verified 2026-09-05
Release v0.3.0