This article describes my experiences over more than 50 years in initiating and maintaining research on human genetics and genomics at the National Research Centre in Cairo, Egypt, from its beginnings in a small unit of human genetics to the creation of the Center of Excellence for Human Genetics. This was also the subject of a lecture I gave at the 10th Conference of the African Society of Human Genetics, held in Cairo in November 2017, after which Professor Michèle Ramsay, president of the society, suggested that I write an autobiographical article for the Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics. I hope that I succeeded in the difficult assignment of summarizing the efforts of a researcher from a developing country to initiate and maintain the rapidly advancing science of human genetics and genomics in my own country and make contributions to the worldwide scientific community.

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埃及开罗国家研究中心的人类遗传学发展：50年的故事。

本文介绍了我在埃及开罗国家研究中心发起和维护人类遗传学和基因组学研究超过50年的经历，从最初的一小部分人类遗传学到建立人类卓越研究中心，遗传学。这也是我在2017年11月在开罗举行的非洲人类遗传学会第十届会议上的演讲的主题，此后该学会主席米歇尔·拉姆齐（MichèleRamsay）教授建议我为《世界人类学年鉴》撰写自传体文章。基因组学和人类遗传学评论。