AI for Precision Health

Machine Learning-Driven Insights and Predictions for CO2 Adsorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks

Skander Charni, Raeesh Muhammad, Abdulkarem I. Amhamed, Brahim Aissa, Halima Bensmail
International Conference on Thermal Engineering (ICTEA) (2025)

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)

Tisslet: Tissues-based Learning Estimation for Transcriptomics

Ahmed Miloudi, Aisha Al-Qahtani, Thamanna Hashir, Mohamed Chikri, Halima Bensmail
BMC bioinformatics (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)

Multi-omics and machine learning reveal context-specific gene regulatory activities of PML::RARA in acute promyelocytic leukemia

William Villiers, Audrey Kelly, Xiaohan He, James Kaufman-Cook, Abdurrahman Elbasir, Halima Bensmail, Paul Lavender, Richard Dillon, Borbála Mifsud, Cameron S. Osborne
Nature Communications (2023)

OutSingle: a novel method of detecting and injecting outliers in RNA-Seq count data using the optimal hard threshold for singular values

Edin Salkovic, Abdelkader Baggag, Ahmed Gamal Rashed Salem, Halima Bensmail*, Mohammad Amin Sadeghi
Bioinformatics (2023)

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)

Comprehensive review and assessment of computational methods for predicting RNA post-transcriptional modification sites from RNA sequences

Zhen Chen, Pei Zhao, Fuyi Li, Yanan Wang, A. Ian Smith, Geoffrey I. Webb, Tatsuya Akutsu, Abdelkader Baggag, Halima Bensmail, Jiangning Song
Briefings in Bioinformatics (2020)

BCrystal: An interpretable sequence-based protein crystallization predictor

Abdurrahman Elbasir, Raghvendra Mall, Khalid Kunji, Reda Rawi, Zeyaul Islam, Gwo Yu Chuang, Prasanna R. Kolatkar, Halima Bensmail
Bioinformatics (2020)

DeepCrystal: A Deep Learning Framework for Sequence-based Protein Crystallization Prediction

Abdurrahman Elbasir, Balasubramanian Moovarkumudalvan, Khalid Kunji, Prasanna R. Kolatkar, Halima Bensmail, Raghvendra Mall
IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (2018)

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)

RGBM: Regularized gradient boosting machines for identification of the transcriptional regulators of discrete glioma subtypes

Raghvendra Mall, Luigi Cerulo, Luciano Garofano, Veronique Frattini, Khalid Kunji, Halima Bensmail, Thais S. Sabedot, Houtan Noushmehr, Anna Lasorella, Antonio Iavarone, Michele Ceccarelli
Nucleic Acids Research (2018)