Primary Recipient

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE

Amount

$638,302.00

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

Human- and hominoid-specific genes are among the most interesting genes in the human genome. These genes are likely to have evolved by duplication of segments of DNA ( a process called segmental duplication) that occurred during primate expansion. New gen