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ArticlePharmacogenomics and personalized medicine2026

Whole-Exome and Whole-Genome Sequencing of Candidate Pharmacogenomic and Schizophrenia-Related Genes in Sudanese Families with Schizophrenia.

Safa A Abdalla, Azza Saeed, Lamees Ahmed, Safa Abuswar, Mudathir Salih, Amel Eltigani, Iman H Abdoon, Bashier Osman, Muntaser E Ibrahim

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Safa A AbdallaDepartment of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.ORCID 0000-0002-7043-220X
Azza SaeedInstitute of Endemic Disease, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.ORCID 0000-0001-5534-3834
Lamees AhmedInstitute of Endemic Disease, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.
Safa AbuswarInstitute of Endemic Disease, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.
Mudathir SalihInstitute of Endemic Disease, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.
Amel EltiganiDepartment of Psychiatry, El-Tigani El-Mahi Mental Health Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan.
Iman H AbdoonDepartment of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.ORCID 0000-0002-7453-5724
Bashier OsmanDepartment of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.
Muntaser E IbrahimInstitute of Endemic Disease, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.

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Background: Schizophrenia is considered a neuro-developmental disorder leading to disastrous lifelong disability of the patients and their families. There is a lack of data regarding pharmacogenomics of schizophrenia in Sudan. This study aimed to identify different genes affecting the treatment outcomes in Sudanese patients with schizophrenia. Methods: A case-control study was conducted on seven families having more than one member diagnosed with schizophrenia. This was a small exploratory family-based sequencing study involving 18 affected individuals and 8 controls from seven families. Ethical clearance and informed consent were obtained. Demographic data were collected using a standardized data collection sheet. DNA was extracted from blood samples collected from patients and control groups. Then, whole-exome and genome sequencing were performed. Sixty-six genes associated with schizophrenia, treatment, and treatment resistance were selected from the variant calling file. Variants showing single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were identified. These variants were then classified based on their impact on the protein-coding sequence into high- and moderate-impact. Moreover, indel mutations were also identified. Results: Twelve variants of seven genes (COMT, FMO1, LPL, CYP2E1, ABCC1, GRM3, CYP2C9) were identified as genes with impact and potential association with schizophrenia (p-value=0.006632). Forty-three genes had a moderate impact, and they showed a potential association with schizophrenia (p-value=0.0004436). Two variants were indel mutations (CYP2D6, DTNBP1) and showed association with schizophrenia (p-value=0.004741). The p-values were generated from different databases. Conclusion: This exploratory family-based sequencing study identified several potentially relevant pharmacogenomic and schizophrenia-associated variants in Sudanese families, warranting validation in larger and ethnically diverse cohorts.

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