Prevalence of glucocerebrosidase mutatio
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Mia Horowitz; Metsada Pasmanik-Chor; Zvi Borochowitz; Tzipora Falik-Zaccai; Kere
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Gaucher disease is the most prevalent inherited disease among Ashkenazi Jews. It is very heterogeneous due to a large number of mutations within the glucocerebrosidase gene, whose impaired activity is the cause for this disease. Aiming at determining Gaucher carrier frequency among the Ashkenazi Jew