
Elsevier, Neuron, Volume 107, 5 August 2020
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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Africa South Of The Sahara; African American; African Continental Ancestry Group; Article; Biomedical Research; Black Person; Brain; Brain Disease; Brain Diseases; DNA Sequencing; Degenerative Disease; Disease Predisposition; Epigenetics; Gene Expression Profiling; Genetic Regulation; Genetic Variation; Genome-wide Association Study; Genotype Environment Interaction; Health Care Disparity; High Risk Population; Human; Humans; Medical Research; Mental Disease; Multiomics; Neuroscience; Neurosciences; Patient Selection; Personalized Medicine; Population Genetics; Precision Medicine; Priority Journal; Protein Expression; RNA Sequencing; Race Difference; Single Nucleotide Polymorphism; Socioeconomics; Transcriptomics; Global