AI for Disease Analysis

Comprehensive Analysis of Rare Variants Associated with Genetic Predisposition to Non-BRCA Familial Breast Cancer Among Arabs

Ehsan Ullah, Hikmat Abdel-Razeq, Sana Bentebbal, Abdullah Shaar, Nehad Alajez, Mohamad Saad, Julie V. Decock
Clinical Cancer Research (2025)

Genome‐Wide Association Study for Resting Electrocardiogram in the Qatari Population Identifies 6 Novel Genes and Validates Novel Polygenic Risk Scores

Nahin Khan, Abdullah Shaar, Khalid Kunji, Atlas Khan, Mohamed Elshrif, Mohammed Bashir, Mohammed Thamer Ali, Ayman Al Haj Zen, Krzysztof Kiryluk, Georges Nemer, Akl C. Fahed, Mohamad Saad
Journal of the American Heart Association (2025)

PopMLvis: a tool for analysis and visualization of population structure using genotype data from genome-wide association studies

Mohamed Elshrif , Keivin Isufaj , Khalid Kunji , Mohamad Saad
BMC Bioinformatics (2024)

Genetic Susceptibility to Arrhythmia Phenotypes in a Middle Eastern Cohort of 14,259 Whole-Genome Sequenced Individuals

Fatima Qafoud , Mohamed Elshrif , Khalid Kunji , Asma Althani , Amar Salam , Jassim Al Suwaidi , Nidal Asaad , Dawood Darbar , Mohamad Saad
Journal of Clinical Medicine (2024)

Validation of Polygenic Risk Scores for Coronary Heart Disease in a Middle Eastern Cohort Using Whole Genome Sequencing

Mohamad Saad , Ayman El-Menyar , Khalid Kunji , Ehsan Ullah , Jassim Al Suwaidi , Iftikhar J. Kullo
Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine (2022)

Including diverse and admixed populations in genetic epidemiology research

Amke Caliebe , Fasil Tekola‐Ayele , Burcu F. Darst , Xuexia Wang , Yeunjoo E. Song , Jiang Gui , Ronnie A. Sebro , David J. Balding , Mohamad Saad , Marie‐Pierre Dubé
Genetic Epidemiology (2022)

Untargeted Metabolomics Profiling Reveals Perturbations in Arginine-NO Metabolism in Middle Eastern Patients with Coronary Heart Disease

Ehsan Ullah , Ayman El-Menyar , Khalid Kunji , Reem Elsousy , Haira R. B. Mokhtar , Eiman Ahmad , Maryam Al-Nesf , Alka Beotra , Mohammed Al-Maadheed , Vidya Mohamed-Ali , Mohamad Saad , Jassim Al Suwaidi
Metabolites (2022)

Genetic predisposition to cancer across people of different ancestries in Qatar: a population-based, cohort study

Mohamad Saad , Younes Mokrab , Najeeb Halabi , Jingxuan Shan , Rozaimi Razali , Khalid Kunji , Najeeb Syed , Ramzi Temanni , Murugan Subramanian , Michele Ceccarelli , Said I Ismail , Wadha Al-Muftah , Radja Badji , Hamdi Mbarek , Dima Darwish , Tasnim Fadl , Heba Yasin , Maryem Ennaifar , Rania Abdellatif , Fatima Alkuwari , Muhammad Alvi , Yasser Al-Sarraj , Chadi Saad , Eleni Fethnou , Fatima Qafoud , Eiman Alkhayat , Nahla Afifi , Sara Tomei , Wei Liu , Stephan Lorenz , Najeeb Syed , Hakeem Almabrazi , Fazulur R Vempalli , Ramzi Temanni , Tariq Abu Saqri , Mohammedhusen Khatib , Mehshad Hamza , Tariq Abu Zaid , Ahmed El Khouly , Tushar Pathare , Shafeeq Poolat , Rashid Al-Ali , Omar Albagha , Souhaila Al-Khodor , Mashael Alshafai , Ramin Badii , Lotfi Chouchane , Xavier Estivill , Khalid Fakhro , Hamdi Mbarek , Younes Mokrab , Jithesh V Puthen , Karsten Suhre , Zohreh Tatari , Arash Rafii Tabrizi , Davide Bedognetti , Lotfi Chouchane
The Lancet Oncology (2022)

Germline genetic contribution to the immune landscape of cancer

Rosalyn W. Sayaman , Mohamad Saad , Vésteinn Thorsson , Donglei Hu , Wouter Hendrickx , Jessica Roelands , Eduard Porta-Pardo , Younes Mokrab , Farshad Farshidfar , Tomas Kirchhoff , Randy F. Sweis , Oliver F. Bathe , Carolina Heimann , Michael J. Campbell , Cynthia Stretch , Scott Huntsman , Rebecca E. Graff , Najeeb Syed , Laszlo Radvanyi , Simon Shelley , Denise Wolf , Francesco M. Marincola , Michele Ceccarelli , Jérôme Galon , Elad Ziv , Davide Bedognetti
Immunity (2021)

Comparison and assessment of family- and population-based genotype imputation methods in large pedigrees

Ehsan Ullah , Raghvendra Mall , Mostafa M. Abbas , Khalid Kunji , Alejandro Q. Nato , Halima Bensmail , Ellen M. Wijsman , Mohamad Saad
Genome Research (2019)