Stormy Chamberlain is associate professor of genetics and genome sciences and associate director of the Graduate Program in Genetics and Developmental Biology at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.
Stormy Chamberlain
Associate professor
University of Connecticut
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21 October 2019 | 4 min read
For accurate results in autism, genetic databases need diversity
We must diversify databases of reference DNA to improve our ability to interpret the consequences of genetic variation.
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