Primary Recipient

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE

Amount

$303,463.00

Award Date

9/18/2009

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

Genetic dissection of hypertension (HTN) and co-morbidities, carried out largely through traditional linkage analysis, has mostly been unsuccessful to date in identifying specific genetic variants. Motivated by existing evidence that some of the genetic e