Primary Recipient

TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK

Amount

$797,500.00

Award Date

9/24/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy (IGE) is one of the most common forms of epilepsy, representing about 30% of all epilepsies; and, its etiology is considered to be mostly genetic. Both linkage and association studies have identified several candidate genes