False positives in study of memory-related gene expression

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA. emukamel@ucsd.edu.
² Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.

Comment

Eran A Mukamel et al. Nature. 2025 Jun.

. 2025 Jun;642(8066):E1-E3.

doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-08988-y. Epub 2025 Jun 4.

¹ Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA. emukamel@ucsd.edu.
² Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.

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Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

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