Type 2 Gaucher disease occurs in Ashkenazi Jews but is surprisingly rare

type 2 gaucher disease (acute infantile gaucher disease or neuropathic type)

how to cite this article: taghdiri mm. type 2 gaucher disease (acute infantile gaucher disease or neuropathic type). iran j child neurol autumn 2012; 6:4 (suppl. 1):12.   pls see pdf.

Familial Mediterranean fever in Ashkenazi Jews.

Joubert syndrome 2 (JBTS2) in Ashkenazi Jews is associated with a TMEM216 mutation.

Patients with Joubert syndrome 2 (JBTS2) suffer from a neurological disease manifested by psychomotor retardation, hypotonia, ataxia, nystagmus, and oculomotor apraxia and variably associated with dysmorphism, as well as retinal and renal involvement. Brain MRI results show cerebellar vermis hypoplasia and additional anomalies of the fourth ventricle, corpus callosum, and occipital cortex. The ...

Increased rate of sporadic and recurrent rare genic copy number variants in Parkinson's disease among Ashkenazi Jews

To date, only one genome-wide study has assessed the contribution of CNVs to Parkinson's Disease (PD). We conducted a genome-wide scan for CNVs in a case-control dataset of Ashkenazi Jewish (AJ) origin (268 PD cases and 178 controls). Using high-confidence CNVs, we examined the global genome wide burden of large (≥100Kb) and rare (≤1% in the dataset) CNVs between cases and controls. A total of ...

Type 1 and type 3 Gaucher disease in two siblings in a family: 2 unusual case reports.

Gaucher disease (GD) is an autosomal recessive disorder, characterized by lack of acid β-glucosidase (glucocerebrosidase) enzyme resulting in accumulation of glucosylceramide in different organs. It is common in Ashkenazi Jews but rare in India. Around five hundred cases are identified and diagnosed in India. We are reporting two interesting cases of type 1 non-neuropathic and type 3 juvenile s...