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On behalf of all our Colleagues, staff and students, I am pleased to welcome you to the Genetics Research Center.

Being a center for professional research in University of Social welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences provides a tremendous opportunity for our students to excel in a forward thinking and rich scientific environment. This is the place where Science and practice embraces technology; so, our graduates will be business educated, applications focused and success driven!

We are committed in providing a solid foundation for our specific expert area within a hands-on, experiential learning environment with opportunities to cooperate and to work with any institutions and corporation throughout the region which is involved somehow in the health related fields regarding our mission. This co-op will hopefully intend to learn first-hand about entrepreneurship and product innovation as well. We invite you to explore this website to get additional information on our programs, curricula, requirements, course offerings, and to discover more about our structure, staff and students. 

Hossein, Najmabadi, PhD

Director of Research Center of Genetics Research Center

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The second family affected with a PRDM8-related disease
The second family affected with a PRDM8-related disease

Hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSPs) comprise a group of heterogeneous inherited-neurological diseases characterized by spasticity and lower limb weakness. On the other hand, HSP presents a high level of clinical and genetic heterogeneity with an obvious overlap with other neurodegenerative or metabolic disorders that makes HSP diagnosis very challenging.

Novel gene discovery in hereditary hearing loss in Iran
Novel gene discovery in hereditary hearing loss in Iran

Hearing loss (HL) is an etiologically heterogeneous disorder that affects around 5% of the world's population and is expected to affect almost 2.5 billion individuals by 2050. Over the years, with the advancement of technology and the use of methods such as Linkage analysis and Next-generation sequencing, other valuable studies have been conducted at the Genetic Research Center of the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences. A research aimed at discovering novel hearing loss genes in Iranian deaf families using ES was conducted at this center and led to the discovery of eight novel candidate genes.

The best research in the field of Covid-19 in Iran from the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences
The best research in the field of Covid-19 in Iran from the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences

Since the outbreak of coronavirus in the Iran, the Genetics Research Center of the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences decided to study the transmission of the virus to Iran by obtaining different strains of Covid-19 virus. The results were published in April 2021 in an article entitled "SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Iran: The dynamics of the epidemic and evidence on two independent introductions "published in the journal "Transboundary and Emerging Diseases".

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