Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

Amount

$141,930.00

Award Date

9/28/2009

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

There is overwhelming evidence for a central role of mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease. This project is based upon our report of a significant association of the mitochondrial J and K haplogroups with Parkinson Disease (PD). In the parent g