Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

Amount

$154,525.00

Award Date

11/26/2009

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

Despite significant advances in our understanding of how trinucleotide repeats cause disease, mechanisms underlying their unique property of genetic instability remain ill-defined. Of all CAG/polyglutamine diseases, spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7) di