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We would like to thank A. Robins (Novocell, Inc.), J.-C. Izpisua Belmonte (The Salk Institute and Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona), P. Schwartz (Children's Hospital Orange County), N.O. Schmidt (Universitatsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf), J. Chun (The Scripps Research Institute), D. Chen (Univ. California, Irvine), J. Shen (ScienCell Research Laboratories, Inc.) and the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Brain and Tissue Bank for Developmental Disorders for their generous contributions of samples for this study. We also thank H. Tran (The Scripps Research Institute), G. Zhou (CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies) and H. Chy (CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies) for their contributions to the project. L.C.L. is supported by an NICHD WRHR K12 award and California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) RN2-00931-1. This project was supported by CIRM RT1-01108-1.
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Laurent, L., Nievergelt, C., Lynch, C. et al. Restricted ethnic diversity in human embryonic stem cell lines. Nat Methods 7, 6–7 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0110-06
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