Massive underrepresentation of Arabs in genomic studies of common disease

oleh: Romit Bhattacharya, NingNing Chen, Injeong Shim, Hiroyuki Kuwahara, Xin Gao, Fowzan S. Alkuraya, Akl C. Fahed

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: BMC 2023-11-01

Deskripsi

Abstract Arabs represent 5% of the world population and have a high prevalence of common disease, yet remain greatly underrepresented in genome-wide association studies, where only 1 in 600 individuals are Arab. We highlight the persistent and unaddressed underrepresentation of Arabs in genomic databases and discuss its impact on public health genomics and missed opportunities for biological discovery.