Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

Amount

$95,508.00

Award Date

8/22/2011

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

Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is caused by a CTG expansion mutation located in the 3' untranslated portion of the dystrophica myotonica protein kinase gene. The identification and characterization of RNAbinding proteins that interact with expanded CUG r