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KSA001 Saudi Reference Genome
Produced the first publicly available reference-quality phased diploid/near-telomere-to-telomere genome for a Saudi individual.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- One Saudi trio recruited at King Fahad Medical City
- Project type
- Population reference genome dataset
- Research domain
- Reference genomics and population variation
- Years
- 2022–2024
- Lifecycle status
- completed
- Status basis
- Recruitment occurred in 2022-2023; the phased reference-quality assembly and public data were published in 2024.
- Status evidence date
- 2024-11-28
- Scale
- One index genome plus parental data; public raw reads, assemblies and code. Use of KSA001 as reference reduces called variants by more than one million per genome relative to GRCh38 in reported analyses.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) · King Fahad Medical City
- Partner organizations
- Not stated
- Organism / population
- One Saudi adult and both parents
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- PacBio HiFi
- Oxford Nanopore
- Hi-C
- Illumina sequencing
- phased de novo assembly
Data access
Public
Identifiers
- BioProject
PRJNA891101
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Named public reference dataset and direct precursor to a national pangenome, despite its single-index scale.
Editorial note
KSA001 is incorporated into the Saudi pangenome/JaSaPaGe resource; do not count its index individual again as a newly recruited pangenome participant.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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