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Missing in Action: African Ancestry Brain Research
Daniel R Weinberger1, Kafui Dzirasa2, Lesia L Crumpton-Young3
1Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Maltz Research Laboratories, Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, Neuroscience and Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Abstract:
Individuals of African ancestry have been starkly underrepresented in the pursuit of personalized medicine for brain illnesses. The African Ancestry Neuroscience Research Initiative will seek to generate much-needed brain gene and protein expression profiles for people of African ancestry.
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