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Characterization of glucocerebrosidase in Greek Gaucher disease patients: mutation analysis and biochemical studies.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jan 1995
Michelakakis H, Dimitriou E, Van Weely S, Boot R G, Mavridou I, Verhoek M, Aerts J M
Abstract excerpt
Gaucher disease is the most frequent lysosomal storage disease in Greece, accounting for 24% of all lysosomal disorders diagnosed during the last 13 years at the Institute of Child Health in Athens. The nature of the defects in glucocerebrosidase in Greek Gaucher patients with non-neuronopathic (type 1) and neuronopathic (types 2 and 3) phenotypes was investigated at the level of the glucocerebrosidase gene and...
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