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Matt Weirauch, PhD
The Center for Autoimmune Genomics and Etiology (CAGE)
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
Phone: 513-803-9078
Email: matthew.weirauch@cchmc.org