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

Neuron. 2020 Aug 5;107(3):407-411. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.07.008. Epub 2020 Jul 24.

Authors

Daniel R Weinberger¹, Kafui Dzirasa², Lesia L Crumpton-Young³

Affiliations

¹ Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Maltz Research Laboratories, Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, Neuroscience and Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Electronic address: drweinberger@libd.org.
² Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Departments of Neurobiology, Biomedical Engineering, Neurosurgery, Center for Neuroengineering, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
³ Morgan State University, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Professor of Engineering, Baltimore, MD 21251, USA.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Biomedical Research*
Black People*
Brain
Brain Diseases
Humans
Neurosciences*
Patient Selection
Precision Medicine*