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Qatar Precision Health Research Consortium
National mechanism organizing multidisciplinary use of QPHI/QGP data in cardiometabolic disease, cancer, autoimmunity, rare variants, neurodegeneration, reproduction, pharmacogenomics, and genomic AI.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- National consortium with international collaborators
- Project type
- research consortium and program portfolio
- Research domain
- population genomics, multi-omics, disease genetics, and AI
- Years
- 2016–
- Lifecycle status
- active second round
- Status basis
- The original Qatar Genome Research Consortium launched in 2017 after a 2016 call; QPHI kicked off a second round under the QPHRC name on 1 December 2025 with 20 approved projects.
- Status evidence date
- 2025-12-01
- Scale
- First round included 10 whole-genome studies and more than 150 researchers; second round includes 20 approved projects.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- Qatar Precision Health Institute · Qatar Genome Programme
- Partner organizations
- Qatar universities, hospitals, and research institutes · international academic collaborators
- Organism / population
- QPHI/QGP cohorts and disease-specific participants
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- whole-genome analysis
- multi-omics
- phenotypes
- statistical genetics
- AI models
Data access
Approved consortium projects use controlled QPHI data.
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Named national genomics consortium coordinating a substantial portfolio of multi-sample studies.
Editorial note
Treat QGRC and QPHRC as one program lineage/renaming. Individual second-round projects are not separately inventoried unless they define a durable cohort or platform.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
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