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QPHI Pan-Arab Genomes and Genotyping Array Initiative
Combines a large Qatar reference panel with genomes from across the Arab world to build population-specific genotyping and imputation tools.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Qatar plus 19 other Arab countries, including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
- Project type
- Regional population-genomics and tool-development initiative
- Research domain
- Population reference genomics, genotyping and imputation
- Years
- Not stated
- Lifecycle status
- in development
- Status basis
- The current QPHI project page documents the genomic input panel, array-design objectives and manufacturing partnership, but does not state that the array is operational.
- Status evidence date
- 2026-08-15
- Scale
- More than 14,669 Qatar whole genomes plus more than 2,946 genomes from 19 other Arab countries.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- Qatar Precision Health Institute · Qatar Genome Programme
- Partner organizations
- Qatar Foundation · Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Organism / population
- Qatar population and participants from 19 other Arab countries
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- whole-genome sequencing
- genotyping array
- imputation panel
- allele frequencies
- whole-genome reference panel
- SNP array
- population structure
Data access
Tools and programme information public; individual-level genomes controlled
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Current regional genomics initiative explicitly representing every GCC state.
Editorial note
Likely a child/translation layer of Qatar's national precision-health ecosystem. Merge with a duplicate Qatar record during release build. Input genomes overlap QGP/QPHI. Country count language on the page is internally awkward: it says 19 other countries but lists 20 names including the UAE; retain the official aggregate of 2,946 without asserting a corrected count.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
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