Grant: TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
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