Type 1 Gaucher Disease: Significant disease manifestations in asymptomatic homozygotes identified by prenatal carrier screening

摘要

BackgroundType 1 Gaucher Disease (GD), an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease, is most prevalent in the Ashkenazi Jewish (AJ) population. Experts have suggested that up to two-thirds of AJ homozygotes for the common mutation (N370S) are asymptomatic throughout life and never come to medical attention. However, there are no systematic studies of N370S homozygotes to support this presumption.