Who Gets It?

• Gaucher disease occurs most often in the
Ashkenazi Jewish population, but other ethnic
and racial groups carry the disease as well

• Anyone with the deficient enzyme can develop the
symptoms of Gaucher disease (symptoms may
appear at any age)

Who Shoul
Gaucher Di

• Families of Jewish des
tested for Gaucher di
Jewish population, 1
of Gaucher disease

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increased chance that
may have the abnorm

• A simple and anonym
you have this enzyme

Treatment

Safe and effective therap
available.

How Do You Get
Gaucher Disease?

• It is passed genetically from parents to their children.
A person can develop Gaucher disease only if he or
she inherits the abnormal gene from both parents.
Genes are instructions carried in DNA, the genetic
material of life

• People who inherit the abnormal gene from just one
parent will not develop Gaucher disease but are
carriers and can pass the gene to their children

Medical an
Support

• The NGF offers progr
suffering from the em
limitations of Gauche

• Young people must co
symptoms, such as gr
their peers and being

• Parents must cope wi

