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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Advances in research and help from families have brought scientists to the brink of an effective therapy for Angelman syndrome.
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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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