UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
The parent RO1 grant of this ARRA supplement received a score of 115 (1.3%) in 2007. The goal was to use both cultured rodent primary neurons and Drosophila models to examine molecular mechanisms of the pathogenesis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD). In this supplement supported by ARRA, we proposed to accelerate the tempo of this line of research and expect to clone 3 to5 genes that modulate the neurotoxicity of the FTD3 mutant protein CHMP2BIntron5 and (2) to characterize 1 to 2 genes and their related genetic pathways in detail..