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Arabian Peninsula Whole-Exome Reference Cohort
Whole-exome sequencing enriched for untranslated regions to characterize Arabian Peninsula diversity, novel variants and predicted deleterious burden.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates and Yemen
- Project type
- Regional controlled-access population dataset
- Research domain
- Population variation and medical genomics
- Years
- Not stated
- Lifecycle status
- completed
- Status basis
- The completed cohort was published and deposited in EGA in 2022.
- Status evidence date
- 2022-10-12
- Scale
- 90 participants; approximately 17,000 novel variants among roughly 145,000 identified variants.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- University of Porto · Dubai Police General Headquarters
- Partner organizations
- Not stated
- Organism / population
- 90 Arabian Peninsula individuals: 23 Saudi, 24 Omani, 19 UAE and 24 Yemeni
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- whole-exome sequencing
- UTR sequencing
- variant calls
Data access
Controlled access through EGA
Identifiers
- EGA
EGAS00001006487 - EGA
EGAD00001009162 - PubMed
PMID:36325056 - DOI
DOI:10.1016/j.isci.2022.105336
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Multi-GCC regional sequence cohort with a durable controlled-access repository record.
Editorial note
The paper summary mentions 90 final participants; a supplementary-table label referenced 94 samples. Use the EGA dataset's 90-sample count.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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