
Organised by the Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Awards for Medical Sciences, the “8th Pan-Arab Human Genetics Conference� began with clinical symposia and lectures on Jan. 17 with five conference themes: Next Generation Sequencing, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Metabolic Disorders, Dysmorphology (Birth Defects), and Population Genomics and Diseases.
On Sunday, it was in the “Population Genomics and Diseases� module that Khalifa University (Abu Dhabi) associate professor Dr. Andreas Henschel discussed the three-year study on genetics pool of the UAE population participated in by 1,000 Emiratis beginning 2017.
Read full story here:Â