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Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño
Professor
University of California, Davis
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Diversifying autism brain banks: Q&A with Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño
The postmortem brain tissue available for autism research is overwhelmingly from people of Western European heritage. Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño and her colleagues are working to change that.
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Diversifying autism brain banks: Q&A with Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño
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