The newly discovered interneuron accounts for approximately one-third of all interneurons in the primate striatum.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by original Nature paper (Krienen, Goldman et al. 2020), its author correction, and independent press releases from Broad Institute and MIT McGovern Institute, plus later citing literature. [tier=gold indep_score=0.988 clusters=4 claim_tier=notable]
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- New Interneuron | Harvard Medical School (seed:psychology_and_neuroscience)
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- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7957574/ (corroboration)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2874-8 (corroboration)