AI for Disease Analysis
Peer-reviewed research from QCAI, published in leading international venues.
2025
2 publicationsAI for Disease Analysis2025
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)
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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)
2024
2 publicationsAI for Disease Analysis2024
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)
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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)
2022
4 publicationsAI for Disease Analysis2022
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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
2021
1 publicationsAI for Disease Analysis2021
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 — Immunity (2021)
2018
1 publicationsAI for Disease Analysis2018
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 (2018)