"Arabs" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Members of a Semitic people inhabiting the Arabian peninsula or other countries of the Middle East and North Africa. The term may be used with reference to ancient, medieval, or modern ethnic or cultural groups. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D018912
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| MeSH Number(s) |
M01.686.754.167
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| 1997 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Arabs" by people in Profiles.
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"Speech Is Golden": The Importance of Colloquial Arabic for Reading Standard Arabic for Beginning Readers. J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2025 Mar 26; 68(3S):1441-1467.
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Exome sequencing in mostly consanguineous Arab families with neurologic disease provides a high potential molecular diagnosis rate. BMC Med Genomics. 2016 07 19; 9(1):42.
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Recurrent Muscle Weakness with Rhabdomyolysis, Metabolic Crises, and Cardiac Arrhythmia Due to Bi-allelic TANGO2 Mutations. Am J Hum Genet. 2016 Feb 04; 98(2):347-57.
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Intention to quit water pipe smoking among Arab Americans: Application of the theory of planned behavior. J Ethn Subst Abuse. 2017 Jan-Mar; 16(1):80-90.
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A shared Y-chromosomal heritage between Muslims and Hindus in India. Hum Genet. 2006 Nov; 120(4):543-51.
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Seasonality of month of birth of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus in homogenous and heterogeneous populations. Isr Med Assoc J. 2005 Jun; 7(6):381-4.
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Juvenile ECG pattern in adult black Arabs. J Electrocardiol. 1997 Apr; 30(2):87-90.
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Predisposition to the fragile X syndrome in Jews of Tunisian descent is due to the absence of AGG interruptions on a rare Mediterranean haplotype. Am J Hum Genet. 1997 Jan; 60(1):103-12.