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Genome-Wide Association Studies of Myocardial Infarction in Saudi Arabian Cohorts
Combined two Saudi case-control studies to identify and replicate myocardial-infarction risk loci and characterize Saudi genetic structure.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- All five Saudi regions, including Al-Khobar and Al-Hofuf recruitment sites
- Project type
- Two-cohort genome-wide association study
- Research domain
- Cardiovascular genomics
- Years
- 2019–2023
- Lifecycle status
- completed
- Status basis
- Recruitment included 2019-2020 and legacy cohorts; primary combined GWAS and public EVA project were published in December 2023.
- Status evidence date
- 2023-12-10
- Scale
- 3,950 myocardial-infarction cases and 2,324 controls (6,274 total).
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSHRC)
- Partner organizations
- King Fahd Hospital of the University · King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST)
- Organism / population
- Saudi myocardial-infarction cases and controls
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- genotyping array
- GWAS summary statistics
- clinical phenotype
Data access
Study metadata/public accession; individual-level access subject to repository controls
Identifiers
- BioProject
PRJEB59353 - Other
11-BIO1342-46
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Named, multi-center, national-scale Saudi GWAS with a public repository accession.
Editorial note
May partially overlap the KFSHRC cardiometabolic/PRS cohort; exact sample overlap is not reported.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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