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Catalogue for Transmission Genetics in Arabs
Open, continuously curated compendium of Arab genetic disorders, associated genes, variants, phenotypes and supporting literature.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Arab world, including all six GCC states
- Project type
- Curated variant and genetic-disease database
- Research domain
- Human genetics, inherited disease and clinical interpretation
- Years
- 2004–
- Lifecycle status
- active
- Status basis
- The official database is currently searchable, describes continuous curation, and reports current disease, gene and variant totals.
- Status evidence date
- 2026-08-15
- Scale
- Current site reports 2,540 diseases, 2,468 genes and 5,702 variants across the Arab world.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- Centre for Arab Genomic Studies
- Partner organizations
- Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences
- Organism / population
- Arab individuals and families reported in biomedical literature
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- curated variants
- disease-gene associations
- phenotypes
- bibliographic evidence
- disease records
- gene-disease relationships
- pathogenic variants
- bibliographic curation
Data access
Open web search; bulk export not verified
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Operational region-wide variant resource explicitly covering every GCC state.
Editorial note
UAE-based regional resource. Do not split country-filtered CTGA records into separate national projects unless a distinct national release exists. Regional rather than UAE-only content; include as a UAE-led enabling data platform, not a UAE patient cohort.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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