Gaucher disease as a paradigm of current issues regarding single gene mutations of humans.

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Gaucher disease is a glycolytic storage disease caused by a deficiency in activity of the catabolic enzyme glucocerebrosidase. Over 35 different mutations have been documented, including missense and nonsense point mutations, splicing mutations, deletions and insertions, a fusion gene, and examples of gene conversion. Gaucher disease is most common in the Ashkenazi Jewish population, in which just five of the...

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