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Gaucher disease in Arab patients at an Israeli referral clinic.
The Israel Medical Association journal : IMAJ - 1 Jan 2000
Brautbar Ariel, Abrahamov Aya, Hadas-Halpern Irith, Elstein Deborah, Zimran Ari
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: With regard to ethnic predilections for Gaucher disease, the most common storage disorder, Ashkenazi Jews are at risk for the non-neuronopathic form (type I), Norbottnian Swedes are at risk for the subacute neuronopathic form (type III), and perhaps Arabs are at risk for the very rare cardiac variant of the subacute neuronopathic form (type IIIc) for which there is a relatively tight...
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