Missing in Action: African Ancestry Brain Research

Elsevier, Neuron, Volume 107, 5 August 2020
Authors: 
Weinberger D.R., Dzirasa K., Crumpton-Young L.L.

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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