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The full spectrum of causative mutations remains to be discovered, especially in understudied populations.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Here, we established the DOHA Registry and Biobank for cardiomyopathies in Qatar, followed by sequencing of 174\u00a0genes on 51 HCM and 53 DCM patients, and 31 relatives.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>In HCM, the analysis of 25 HCM\u2010associated genes showed that 20% of HCM cases had putative pathogenic variants for cardiomyopathy, mainly in sarcomere genes. Additional 49% of HCM cases had variants of uncertain significance, while 31% of HCM cases had likely benign variant(s) or had no variants identified within the analyzed HCM genes. In DCM, 56 putative DCM genes were analyzed. Eight percent of DCM cases had putative pathogenic variants for DCM, in the <jats:italic>TTN<\/jats:italic> gene while 70% of cases had variants of uncertain significance, in the analyzed DCM genes, that will need further pathogenicity assessment. Moreover, 22% of DCM cases remain unexplained, by having likely benign variant(s) or having no variants detected in any of the analyzed DCM genes.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>We identified or replicated at least four recurrent variants among cardiomyopathy patients, which could be founder disease mutations in the Arabic population, including a frameshift variant (c.1371_1381dupTATCCAGTTAT) of unknown significance in the <jats:italic>FKTN<\/jats:italic> gene which seems to cause DCM in homozygosity, and HCM in heterozygosity. <jats:italic>In vivo<\/jats:italic> and\/or <jats:italic>in vitro<\/jats:italic> functional validation need to be pursued in order to assess the pathogenicity of the identified 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