Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

Amount

$118,206.00

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

X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA, Kennedy's disease) is an inherited neuromuscular disorder characterized by lower motor neuron degeneration. SBMA is caused by CAG/polyglutamine (polyQ) repeat expansions in the human androgen receptor (A