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Overview

Eissa Faqeih is affiliated with King Fahd Medical City in Saudi Arabia. Their research spans multiple fields predominantly within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions also in Medicine.

Their work covers a variety of subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Clinical Biochemistry, Physiology, and Cell Biology. These areas align with the main topics of their research, which include:

  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Metabolism and Genetic Disorders
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases

Faqeih has published extensively, with a number of papers appearing in prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature Communications
  • Genetics in Medicine
  • Genome Medicine
  • The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Faqeih include:

  • "NEMF mutations that impair ribosome-associated quality control are associated with neuromuscular disease," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "DALRD3 encodes a protein mutated in epileptic encephalopathy that targets arginine tRNAs for 3-methylcytosine modification," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Loss-of-function mutations in UDP-Glucose 6-Dehydrogenase cause recessive developmental epileptic encephalopathy," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Diagnostic implications of pitfalls in causal variant identification based on 4577 molecularly characterized families," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Categorized Genetic Analysis in Childhood-Onset Cardiomyopathy," 2020, Circulation Genomic and Precision Medicine

Faqeih frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Fowzan S. Alkuraya
  • Fuad Al Mutairi
  • Majid Alfadhel
  • Mohammed Almannai
  • Naif A. M. Almontashiri

Best Publications

  • Accelerating novel candidate gene discovery in neurogenetic disorders via whole-exome sequencing of prescreened multiplex consanguineous families.

    Anas M. Alazami;Nisha Patel;Hanan E. Shamseldin;Shamsa Anazi

  • The landscape of genetic diseases in Saudi Arabia based on the first 1000 diagnostic panels and exomes.

    Dorota Monies;Mohamed Abouelhoda;Moeenaldeen AlSayed;Zuhair Alhassnan

  • Clinical genomics expands the morbid genome of intellectual disability and offers a high diagnostic yield

    S Anazi;S Maddirevula;E Faqeih;H Alsedairy

  • Mutations in FBXL4 Cause Mitochondrial Encephalopathy and a Disorder of Mitochondrial DNA Maintenance

    Penelope E. Bonnen;John W. Yarham;Arnaud Besse;Ping Wu

  • Genomic analysis of primordial dwarfism reveals novel disease genes

    Ranad Shaheen;Eissa Faqeih;Shinu Ansari;Ghada Abdel-Salam

  • Study of autosomal recessive osteogenesis imperfecta in Arabia reveals a novel locus defined by TMEM38B mutation.

    Ranad Shaheen;Anas M Alazami;Muneera J Alshammari;Eissa Faqeih

  • Recessive Mutations in DOCK6, Encoding the Guanidine Nucleotide Exchange Factor DOCK6, Lead to Abnormal Actin Cytoskeleton Organization and Adams-Oliver Syndrome

    Ranad Shaheen;Eissa Faqeih;Asma Sunker;Heba Morsy

  • Expanding the genetic heterogeneity of intellectual disability.

    Shams Anazi;Sateesh Maddirevula;Vincenzo Salpietro;Yasmine T. Asi

  • Characterizing the morbid genome of ciliopathies

    Ranad Shaheen;Katarzyna Szymanska;Basudha Basu;Nisha Patel

  • In search of triallelism in Bardet–Biedl syndrome

    Leen Abu-Safieh;Shamsa Al-Anazi;Lama Al-Abdi;Mais Hashem

  • A homozygous truncating mutation in PUS3 expands the role of tRNA modification in normal cognition.

    Ranad Shaheen;Lu Han;Eissa Faqeih;Nour Ewida

  • The genetic landscape of familial congenital hydrocephalus.

    Ranad Shaheen;Mohammed Adeeb Sebai;Nisha Patel;Nour Ewida

  • Bi-allelic Alterations in AEBP1 Lead to Defective Collagen Assembly and Connective Tissue Structure Resulting in a Variant of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

    Patrick R. Blackburn;Zhi Xu;Kathleen E. Tumelty;Rose W. Zhao

  • Mutations in EOGT Confirm the Genetic Heterogeneity of Autosomal-Recessive Adams-Oliver Syndrome

    Ranad Shaheen;Mona Aglan;Kim Keppler-Noreuil;Eissa Faqeih

  • Expanding the clinical and genetic heterogeneity of hereditary disorders of connective tissue.

    Anas M. Alazami;Sarah M. Al-Qattan;Eissa Faqeih;Amal Alhashem

  • AMPD2 Regulates GTP Synthesis and Is Mutated in a Potentially Treatable Neurodegenerative Brainstem Disorder

    Naiara Akizu;Vincent Cantagrel;Jana Schroth;Na Cai

  • Molecular autopsy in maternal–fetal medicine

    Hanan E Shamseldin;Wesam Kurdi;Fatima Almusafri;Maha Alnemer

  • ISCA2 mutation causes infantile neurodegenerative mitochondrial disorder

    Zuhair N Al-Hassnan;Mazhor Al-Dosary;Majid Alfadhel;Eissa A Faqeih

  • Expanded Newborn Screening Program in Saudi Arabia: Incidence of screened disorders

    Majid Alfadhel;Majid Alfadhel;Majid Alfadhel;Ali Al Othaim;Ali Al Othaim;Ali Al Othaim;Saif Al Saif;Saif Al Saif;Saif Al Saif;Fuad Al Mutairi;Fuad Al Mutairi;Fuad Al Mutairi

  • Exome sequencing in mostly consanguineous Arab families with neurologic disease provides a high potential molecular diagnosis rate

    Wu Lin Charng;Wu Lin Charng;Ender Karaca;Ender Karaca;Zeynep Coban Akdemir;Zeynep Coban Akdemir;Tomasz Gambin;Tomasz Gambin

Frequent Co-Authors

Fowzan S. Alkuraya
Fowzan S. Alkuraya Alfaisal University
Ranad Shaheen
Ranad Shaheen King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre
Mustafa A. Salih
Mustafa A. Salih King Saud University
Stefan T. Arold
Stefan T. Arold King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Maha S. Zaki
Maha S. Zaki National Research Centre, Egypt
Joseph G. Gleeson
Joseph G. Gleeson University of California, San Diego
Lee-Jun C. Wong
Lee-Jun C. Wong Baylor College of Medicine
Jill A. Rosenfeld
Jill A. Rosenfeld Baylor College of Medicine
Clare V. Logan
Clare V. Logan University of Edinburgh
Jennifer E. Posey
Jennifer E. Posey Baylor College of Medicine

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