Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1-2014
Abstract
The joint 5th Pan Arab Human Genetics conference and 2013 Golden Helix Symposium, "Genomics into Healthcare" was coorganized by the Center for Arab Genomic Studies (http://www.cags.org.ae) in collaboration with the Golden Helix Foundation (http://www.goldenhelix.org) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from 17 to 19 November, 2013. The meeting was attended by over 900 participants, doctors and biomedical students from over 50 countries and was organized into a series of nine themed sessions that covered cancer genomics and epigenetics, genomic and epigenetic studies, genomics of blood and metabolic disorders, cytogenetic diagnosis and molecular profiling, next-generation sequencing, consanguinity and hereditary diseases, clinical genomics, clinical applications of pharmacogenomics, and genomics in public health.
Recommended Citation
Fortina, Paolo; Al Khaja, Najib; Al Ali, Mahmoud Taleb; Hamzeh, Abdul Rezzak; Nair, Pratibha; Innocenti, Federico; Patrinos, George P.; and Kricka, Larry J., "Genomics into Healthcare: the 5th Pan Arab Human Genetics Conference and 2013 Golden Helix Symposium." (2014). Department of Cancer Biology Faculty Papers. Paper 77.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/cbfp/77
PubMed ID
24526565
Comments
This article has been peer reviewed. It is the authors' final version prior to publication in Human Mutation, Volume 35, Issue 5, May 2014, Pages 637-640.
The published version is available at DOI: 10.1002/humu.22530. Copyright © Wiley