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Saudi Stem Cell Donor Registry
Recruits and HLA-types Saudi stem-cell donors to improve transplant matching and characterize Saudi HLA diversity.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Nationwide Saudi volunteer donor population
- Project type
- National HLA-genotyped donor registry
- Research domain
- Population immunogenetics and transplant matching
- Years
- 2011–
- Lifecycle status
- active
- Status basis
- Established in 2011 and described as an active national registry in peer-reviewed reports through 2023.
- Status evidence date
- 2023-12-20
- Scale
- Published snapshots include 28,927 NGS-typed donors, 64,315 donors used for a 2023 iPSC analysis and 75,145 recruited donors in a 2021 status report; long-term target approximately one million.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC)
- Partner organizations
- Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs
- Organism / population
- Volunteer Saudi hematopoietic stem-cell donors
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- HLA next-generation sequencing
- donor registry data
Data access
Clinical registry/controlled; aggregate frequencies published
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Long-running national genotyped donor registry with tens of thousands of participants and population-immunogenetics outputs.
Editorial note
Counts are time-specific snapshots with different inclusion/typing criteria, not additive totals. This is a clinical donor registry rather than a conventional genome cohort and supplies HLA data for SBiPSCs.
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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