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Novel mutation, L371V, causing multigenerational Gaucher disease in a Lebanese family.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 15 Mar 2004
Shamseddine A, Taher A, Fakhani S, Zhang M, Scott C Ronald, Habbal M Z
Abstract excerpt
We have identified six individuals over three generations within a Lebanese-Arab family affected with Gaucher disease. This family is unusual and informative because affected members are homozygous for a previously unidentified mutation, L371V. Clinical symptoms begin in early childhood and progress to moderately severe involvement by young adulthood. There is significant anemia, thrombocytopenia, and bony...
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