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Saudi Genomics Platform
Aggregates and harmonizes Saudi genomic variants and HPO phenotypes for clinical interpretation, research and national genomic-data reuse.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Nationwide Saudi and Indigenous Arab clinical-laboratory contributors
- Project type
- National genomic data platform and variant database
- Research domain
- Population variation, rare disease and genomic data infrastructure
- Years
- 2025–
- Lifecycle status
- active
- Status basis
- The public v1 browser and FAQ were live in 2025-2026 and state that expansion and additional data types are planned.
- Status evidence date
- 2026-08-15
- Scale
- v1 contains 1,378 exomes and more than 10 million high-confidence GRCh38 variants.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- Saudi Ministry of Health Data Bank
- Partner organizations
- Participating public and private molecular diagnostic laboratories
- Organism / population
- Healthy Saudi/Indigenous Arab participants and patients with childhood-onset genetic disorders
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- whole-exome sequencing
- variant frequencies
- HPO phenotypes
Data access
Public aggregate browser plus controlled-access data
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Operational national genomic-data platform with explicit public release scale and ongoing expansion.
Editorial note
Separate Ministry of Health platform from KACST's Saudi Human Genome Program despite the SGP acronym collision. The homepage discusses WES/WGS broadly, but the FAQ says v1 contains exomes only. Source-cohort provenance and overlap with SHGP are not publicly resolved.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
Release v0.2.0