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Sumi Elsa John

Dasman Diabetes InstituteORCID 0000-0001-6175-7005Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Animal Behavior & Cognition· 1 Genetic & Genomic Medicine· 1 Genetics· 1

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Organism:human· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:variant effect prediction· 2 Assay:whole-exome sequencing· 2 Assay:behavioral assay· 1 Research Focus:cancer & tumor microenvironment· 1 Research Focus:development & morphogenesis· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1

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Fahd Al‐MullaiD· 2 shared Rasheeba NizamiD· 2 shared Rasheed AhmadiD· 2 shared Thangavel Alphonse ThanarajiD· 2 shared Alphonse Thanaraj Thangavel· 1 shared Anwar KandariiD· 1 shared Anwar MohammadiD· 1 shared Arshad Channanath· 1 shared

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Genetic & Genomic MedicinemedRxivPreprintOct 11, 2026

Genetic Variant Burden Rises with BMI: Insights from Rare and Low-Frequency Variants in Obesity

Sumi Elsa John, Arshad Channanath, Md Zubbair Malik…·Alphonse Thanaraj Thangavel

The paper identifies rare and low-frequency genetic variants associated with obesity severity, finding that variant burden correlates with BMI across different obesity categories.

DOI 10.64898/2026.10.08.26364979

humanwhole-exome sequencing

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Animal Behavior & CognitionNutritional NeurosciencePeer-reviewedFeb 6, 2024

Glucose intolerance induces anxiety-like behaviors independent of obesity and insulin resistance in a novel model of nutritional metabolic stress

Mohammed Al‐Onaizi, Kawthar Braysh, Selma S. Alkafeef…·Fawaz Alzaïd

This study shows glucose intolerance can cause anxiety-like behaviors without obesity or insulin resistance, using a new nutritional model of metabolic stress.

12 citations

mousebehavioral assay

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GeneticsHeliyonPeer-reviewedJan 28, 2021

A comprehensive germline variant and expression analyses of ACE2, TMPRSS2 and SARS-CoV-2 activator FURIN genes from the Middle East: Combating SARS-CoV-2 with precision medicine

Fahd Al‐Mulla, Anwar Mohammad, Ashraf Said Al Madhoun…·Thangavel Alphonse Thanaraj

The paper analyzes germline variants in ACE2, TMPRSS2, and FURIN genes from Middle Eastern populations to understand their role in SARS-CoV-2 infection severity.

53 citations

humanwhole-exome sequencing

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