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Qatar Salivary Microbiome Project
A Qatar-specific salivary microbiome initiative designed to establish a healthy reference and test non-invasive microbial and host biomarkers against diet, clinical traits and noncommunicable-disease risk.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- National Qatari adult cohort nested in Qatar Biobank and Qatar Genome resources
- Project type
- population microbiome and biomarker cohort
- Research domain
- human microbiome, cardiovascular and metabolic precision health
- Years
- 2017–
- Lifecycle status
- major cohort analyses published; continuing resource status not explicitly reported
- Status basis
- The official precision-medicine grant page proposed 2,000 participants; population reference and disease-association analyses were published in 2020-2021 using Qatar Biobank/Qatar Genome samples, but no later operational update establishes ongoing recruitment.
- Status evidence date
- 2021-12-15
- Scale
- Planned 16S profiling of 2,000 Qatar Genome participants; the initial reference paper analyzed 997 adults, and an expanded cardiovascular analysis reported 2,974 Qatari participants.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- Sidra Medicine
- Partner organizations
- Qatar Genome Programme · Qatar Biobank · Hamad Bin Khalifa University · Qatar Biomedical Research Institute · Qatar University · Qatar National Research Fund
- Organism / population
- salivary microbial communities and host biomarkers in adult Qatari participants
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- saliva samples
- 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing
- planned metagenomics
- clinical phenotypes
- dietary and nutrition data
- proteomics
- metabolomics
Data access
De-identified participant data and samples are governed by Qatar Biobank/Qatar Genome approvals; publications state access may be requested subject to ethics and institutional review.
Identifiers
- Other
PPM2-0216-170012
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Named multi-hundred-to-thousand-participant microbiome project nested in reusable national cohort infrastructure.
Editorial note
Published sample counts differ by analysis and should not be summed; they likely represent overlapping Qatar Biobank/Qatar Genome participants. The grant proposed metagenomics, while major published population studies used 16S profiling.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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