Primary Recipient

DUKE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$156,072.00

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

During my current grant period, we showed that sex determination depends on the antagonism between two opposing signaling pathways, FGF9 and WNT4. Genetic background affects the phenotype of both Fgf9 and Wnt4 mutants, indicating that the balance between