Missing in Action: African Ancestry Brain Research

Daniel R. Weinberger; Kafui Dzirasa; Lesia L. Crumpton-Young

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2020.07.008

Missing in Action: African Ancestry Brain Research

Daniel R. Weinberger, Kafui Dzirasa, Lesia L. Crumpton-Young

School of Medicine

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	407-411
Number of pages	5
Journal	Neuron
Volume	107
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.07.008
State	Published - Aug 5 2020

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