Article
Clinical and molecular characteristics of Japanese Gaucher disease.
Neurochemical research - 1 Feb 1999
Eto Y, Ida H
Abstract excerpt
Clinical signs and symptoms of Gaucher disease are more severe in Japanese than in Jewish and other non-Japanese patients. A higher percentage of bone crises and splenectomy was demonstrated by Japanese patients, and there were five fatalities among patients with type 1 Gaucher disease. Additiona...
Topics
- Age of Onset
- Bone and Bones
- Child, Preschool
- Cohort Studies
- Gaucher Disease
- Genotype
- Humans
- Infant
- Japan
- Mutation
- Phenotype
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational