Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Thousands of Qatari genomes inform human migration history and improve imputation of Arab haplotypes

  • Rozaimi Mohamad Razali,
  • Juan Rodriguez-Flores,
  • Mohammadmersad Ghorbani,
  • Haroon Naeem,
  • Waleed Aamer,
  • Elbay Aliyev,
  • Ali Jubran,
  • Qatar Genome Program Research Consortium,
  • Andrew G. Clark,
  • Khalid A. Fakhro,
  • Younes Mokrab

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25287-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Arab populations are relatively understudied, especially their genetic architecture and historical relationship with early founders of the ancient Near East. Here, the authors examine 6,218 Qatari whole genomes, revealing insights on migration, population history and genetic structure of populations across the Middle Eastern region.