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Qatar Birth Cohort Study
Gulf mother-child-father cohort studying how genetic factors and environmental exposures interact across pregnancy and early childhood to shape chronic-disease risk.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- National; recruitment through Qatar maternity services
- Project type
- prospective family birth cohort and biobank
- Research domain
- life-course epidemiology, genetics, epigenomics, and microbiome
- Years
- 2018–
- Lifecycle status
- recruiting and following families
- Status basis
- QPHI's current cohort page invites registration and describes five-year follow-up; the cohort was developed in 2018 and began recruitment in April 2019.
- Status evidence date
- 2026-08-15
- Scale
- Target 3,000 maternal pregnancies and mother-child-father triads, followed for five years; more than 400 pregnant women were reported in early recruitment updates.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- Qatar Biobank · Qatar Precision Health Institute
- Partner organizations
- Hamad Medical Corporation · Sidra Medicine · Primary Health Care Corporation
- Organism / population
- Pregnant Qatari and long-term-resident women, their children, and fathers
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- biospecimens
- genomics
- epigenomics
- microbiome
- clinical phenotypes
- environmental exposure
- longitudinal follow-up
Data access
Controlled QPHI cohort access; selected substudies deposit de-identified sequence data.
Identifiers
- BioProject
PRJNA1195396
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Named reusable longitudinal family cohort with multi-omic sampling and a defined national target.
Editorial note
The NCBI accession is one oral-microbiome substudy, not the full cohort repository.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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