Primary Recipient

RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

Amount

$86,000.00

Award Date

8/11/2009

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

Current proposal is extension and continuation of previous work on epigenetic markers for multiple sclerosis. We have shown that patients with multiple sclerosis have a specific pattern of DNA methylation in cell-free circulating plasma DNA in blood. This