Gaucher disease is the most prevalent inherited sphingolipidosis (1). It results from deficient glucocerebrosidase activity and is transmitted as an autosomal recessive trait (2). Three clinical forms of Gaucher disease have been described: Type 1, nonneuronopathic; type 2, acute neuronopathic; and type 3, subacute neuronopathic (1). The gene frequency of Gaucher disease in the Jewish populatio...
