Spatial genomics and brain spatial transcriptomic atlas for precision medicine

Author contributions

Wei Xiong (Data curation, Investigation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing), Alexander Hindeleh (Data curation, Investigation, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing), and Charles Wang (Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing—review & editing).

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest. In addition, as an Editorial Board Member of Precision Clinical Medicine, the corresponding author Charles Wang was blinded from reviewing and making decisions on this manuscript.

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