Tychele Turner is assistant professor of genetics at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, where her lab focuses on the study of noncoding variation in autism, precision genomics in 9p deletion syndrome, optimization of genomic workflows and the application of long-read sequencing to human genetics.
Tychele Turner
Assistant professor of genetics
Washington University School of Medicine
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