Primary Recipient

THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Amount

$38,750.00

Award Date

8/24/2010

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

CpG islands, clusters of CpG dinucleotides in GC-rich regions, are often located in the promoter regions and are considered gene markers. Experiments have shown that methylation of promoter CpG islands plays an important role in gene silencing, carcinogen