The Centre for Arab Genomic Studies (CAGS), a division of the Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences, is organizing a webinar which will discuss Lysosomal Storage Disorders, they are a type of inborn errors of metabolism and include a group of about 50 rare and genetic disorders such as Gaucher disease, Niemann-Pick disease, Pompe disease, and Tay-Sachs disease.
The webinar will feature distinguished doctors and researchers in the field of genetics who will share their most recent studies with the participants, and will be held on Wednesday 8th of June, 2022.
The webinar will feature talks by Prof. Husain Onay, Founder MULTiGEN Biotech, Turkey and will discuss Genetics of Lysosomal Storage Disorders, and Prof. Ahmed Al Faris, Medical Consultant, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, KSA and will discuss Variant analysis and interpretation of lysosomal storage diseases.
Dr.Mahmoud Taleb Al Ali Director of CAGS said" "It gives me great pleasure to announce our first CME activity of this year. The CAGS webinar series has been very well received so far, and the team has worked hard on designing a further webinar in this series, this time focusing on Lysosomal Storage disorders (LSD).
Although most of these LSDs are individually rare, together they contribute to a big genetic burden on society. It is estimated that 1 in 5,000 live births is affected by some form of LSD. Our in-house repository, the Catalogue for Transmission Genetics in Arabs (CTGA) Database, hosts data on several LSDs, their associated genes, and variants within these genes reported in Arab patients. The data is freely accessible to clinicians and researchers who would like to use it".
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