Tag: GNAO1

Conducting a GNAO1 yeast screen

Conducting a GNAO1 yeast screen

As discussed in a previous post, we are currently working on a GNAO1 PerlQuest collaboration with the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) and Harvard Medical School. GNAO1 is a gene that encodes for the alpha subunit of a G protein, and mutations in this gene lead a...
Modeling GNAO1 in Yeast

Modeling GNAO1 in Yeast

As part of Perlara’s collaboration with the Undiagnosed Disease Network (UDN) and Harvard Medical School on the GNAO1 PerlQuest – which our Director of R&D, Nina DiPrimio, introduced in a previous post – I have been working with the yeast team headed...
Economies of Rare

Economies of Rare

Economies of scale are the efficiencies unlocked by large numbers. I’ve come to realize that the efficiencies of scale can emerge at the opposite extreme of rare – especially ultra-rare – genetic disease communities, which can number as few as dozens to thousands of...
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