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An accidental scientist’s journey from an uncertain beginning to advancing neurogenetics research in Africa

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Being an African scientist, I had to overcome several challenges to generate substantial data that shed light on the complexity of genomic medicine in African populations and abroad.

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The author acknowledges support from NINDS (grant no. U01HG007044 as part of the NIH Common Fund H3Africa Initiative and no. R01NS118522 from the extramural research programs in Neuroscience and Neurological Disorders); the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Point “G”, Bamako, Mali; the USTTB, Bamako, Mali; and the African Centre for Excellence in Bioinformatics (ACE), Bamako, Mali.

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