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Comparative Animal Genomics in Qatar
A comparative-genomics program to build genome resources for three culturally and biologically important desert mammals and identify loci involved in heat tolerance, water conservation, metabolism, olfaction and immunity.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Qatar-centered international comparative-genomics collaboration; Arabian-horse sampling extended to 12 countries
- Project type
- multi-species comparative and population genomics grant
- Research domain
- animal genomics, desert adaptation, conservation and livestock genetics
- Years
- 2013–2016
- Lifecycle status
- grant completed; major outputs and datasets published through 2020
- Status basis
- The QNRF-funded three-year project was awarded in 2013; Cornell records a final subaward period ending October 2016, and the Arabian-horse population dataset and paper were released in 2020.
- Status evidence date
- 2020-07-13
- Scale
- Three target species and an approximately USD 1 million, three-year award; its largest documented population output analyzed 378 Arabian horses from 12 countries, with array genotypes and whole-genome resequencing deposited publicly.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- University of Florida · Cornell University Baker Institute for Animal Health · Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
- Partner organizations
- Qatar National Research Fund · Qatar Foundation · Equine Veterinary Medical Center at Al Shaqab · University of Kentucky · University of Tehran · University of Agriculture in Krakow · University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna · Hong Kong Jockey Club
- Organism / population
- Arabian horse, dromedary camel and Arabian oryx
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- whole-genome sequencing
- whole-genome resequencing
- SNP genotyping arrays
- reference genomes
- comparative genomics
- phenotype and pedigree metadata
Data access
Arabian-horse raw sequencing is public in ENA and genotype data are public in Mendeley Data; access conditions for camel and oryx components vary by output.
Identifiers
- Other
NPRP 6-1303-4-023 - BioProject
PRJEB33818 - Other
Mendeley Data mkk5khxrbp.3
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Named, funded, multi-species genomics program with reusable reference resources and a large public population-genomics dataset.
Editorial note
This umbrella grant overlaps the separately cataloged Arabian Oryx Genome Project and contributed to later Arabian-horse and camel papers; those are outputs, not separate duplicates of the umbrella. The formal grant ended in 2016 even though publication continued.
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