Primary Recipient

ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, THE

Amount

$199,692.00

Award Date

9/30/2009

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

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a unique disorder involving shortening of an array of tandem 3.3-kb repeats. Unaffected individuals have 11-100 copies of this repeat, D4Z4, at both allelic subtelomeric regions on the long arm of chromosom