Primary Recipient

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Amount

$94,018.00

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

We demonstrated previously that myotonic dystrophy type 2 (DM2) is caused by a CCTG expansion in intron 1 of the ZA/F9gene. Parallels between the DM1 and DM2 expansion mutations and the characterization of RNA binding proteins that interact with expanded