Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO

Amount

$424,875.00

Award Date

6/08/2009

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

Autism-specific mutation in DACT1: Impact on brain development in a mouse model-We are using a novel conditional knock-out mouse line plus neurons in primary culture to test whether a rare variant in the DACT1 locus contributes to the etiology of autism b