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Extending the scope of interprofessional education: Integrating insights from policy, management and economics for improved health outcomes
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
This study explores the potential of bringing innovations in public health education by drawing insights from the specialised disciplines of Economics, Policy and Management for their applications in the health sector. ...
Changes in student perceptions after a semester-long interprofessional education activity in Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
Objectives Interprofessional education (IPE) is rapidly becoming integrated into university accreditation standards worldwide. However, the impact of IPE on student learning and practice is largely unknown in the Middle ...
Genetic Epidemiology of Type 1 Diabetes in the 22 Arab Countries.
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Current Medicine Group
, 2016 , Article)
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a complex autoimmune disorder that results from the T cell-mediated destruction of the pancreatic β cells and is due to interactions between environmental and genetic factors. Although Arabs have ...
Epidemiology of diabetic ketoacidosis in Arab patients with type 1 diabetes: a systematic review.
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Wiley
, 2016 , Article)
Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is an acute and risky complication of type 1 diabetes. The aim of this study is to build the overall rate of DKA in Arab patients with type 1 diabetes in the 22 Arab nations. This is expected ...
The Qatar genome project: translation of whole-genome sequencing into clinical practice.
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Wiley
, 2016 , Article)
Qatar Genome Project was launched in 2013 with the intent to sequence the genome of each Qatari citizen in an effort to protect Qataris from the high rate of indigenous genetic diseases by allowing the mapping of disease-causing ...
Novel mutation in an Egyptian patient with infantile Canavan disease.
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Springer Verlag (Germany)
, 2016 , Article)
Canavan disease (CD) is a rare fatal childhood neurological autosomal recessive genetic disease caused by mutations in the ASPA gene, which lead to catalytic deficiency of the ASPA enzyme that catalyzes the deacetylation ...
A review of climate change in South East Asian Countries and human health: Impacts, vulnerability, adaptation, and mitigation
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World Health Organization
, 2016 , Article)
Climate Change (CC) is one of the most significant global environmental challenges humanity has faced. The most dominant causative factors due to human activity are emissions of greenhouse-gasses (GHG) from the combustion ...
Structural modeling of p.V31F variant in the aspartoacylase gene.
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Springer Verlag
, 2016 , Article)
Aspartoacylase (ASPA) is an abundant enzyme in the brain, which catalyzes the conversion of N-acetylaspartate into acetate and aspartate, deficiency in its activity leads to degeneration of the white matter of the brain ...
Mendelian inheritance of trimodal CpG methylation sites suggests distal cis-acting genetic effects.
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BioMed Central
, 2016 , Article)
Environmentally influenced phenotypes, such as obesity and insulin resistance, can be transmitted over multiple generations. Epigenetic modifications, such as methylation of DNA cytosine-guanine (CpG) pairs, may be carriers ...
Enhanced Identification of Transcriptional Enhancers Provides Mechanistic Insights into Diseases.
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Cell Press
, 2016 , Article)
Enhancers are distal cis-regulatory DNA elements that increase the expression of target genes. Various experimental and computational approaches including chromatin signature profiling have been developed to predict enhancers ...