Primary Recipient

MAYO CLINIC

Amount

$302,191.00

Award Date

9/15/2009

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

Women who carry inactivating mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes in their germline are at significantly elevate risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Because of the identification of these mutations by clinical genetic testing many mutation carriers are a