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"The authors declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was carried out with the aid of a grant from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC; project ID 109925). BB was supported by a master award from the Division of Medical Sciences at University of Victoria. TH was supported by a British Columbia Children’s Hospital Research Institute Doctoral Award and the University of British Columbia MD/Ph.D. program. MC was supported by a doctoral training award from Fonds de Recherche du Québec–Santé. This work was supported by research grants from CIHR awarded to M-ÈT., who was a College Member of the Royal Society of Canada and a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Neurobiology of Aging and Cognition."