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This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grants K23MH116339 (ASL) and R01MH114927 (TVF).
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Kim, A., Rader, S.L., Fernandez, T.V. et al. Leveraging aggression risk gene expression in the developing and adult human brain to guide future precision interventions. Mol Psychiatry 26, 2680–2682 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-020-00903-3
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