Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER

Amount

$73,615.00

Award Date

9/18/2009

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

Myotonic dystrophy type 1 [DM1] leads to maldevelopment, myotonia, and wasting of skeletal muscle. DM1 is caused by an unstable CTG repeat expansion in the 3' untranslated region of DMPK. Our central hypothesis is that skeletal muscle findings in DM1 resu