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Jewish Iysosomes

Jewish Iysosomes NEWS AND VIEWS HUMAN GENETICS------------------ Progress has also been made on one of the oldest problems confronted by noble Jewish lysosomes gas techniques: double-beta ({3{3) decay, a Jared M. Diamond phenomenon of great interest in theoreti­ cal physics because of the limits it can set on the basic properties of the neutrino and A LONG-standing puzzle of human reached a similar and even more striking population genetics has been the inci­ conclusion for Gaucher, the commonest on electroweak interactions. {3{3 decay is dence of a dozen autosomal recessive of all the storage diseases3-- • Five com­ very slow, and few positive cases are known either from direct laboratory diseases at high frequencies in eastern mon mutations collectively account for European (Ashkenazi) Jewsu. Best­ about 97 per cent of Jewish Gaucher observation or through the geochemical known are Tay-Sachs disease (which is disease alleles. Each mutant allele has a method of daughter isotope accumulation (the latter is possible only when the always fatal) and Gaucher disease (which measured or estimated heterozygote fre­ is often serious), both with heterozygote quency of 0.05-2.8 per cent- far higher daughter isotope is exceedingly scarce, in frequencies of several per cent. Why than could be http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nature Springer Journals

Jewish Iysosomes

Diamond, Jared M.
Nature , Volume 368 (6469) – Mar 24, 1994
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 1994 by Nature Publishing Group
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Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary; Science, multidisciplinary
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0028-0836
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1476-4687
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10.1038/368291a0
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Abstract

NEWS AND VIEWS HUMAN GENETICS------------------ Progress has also been made on one of the oldest problems confronted by noble Jewish lysosomes gas techniques: double-beta ({3{3) decay, a Jared M. Diamond phenomenon of great interest in theoreti­ cal physics because of the limits it can set on the basic properties of the neutrino and A LONG-standing puzzle of human reached a similar and even more striking population genetics has been the inci­ conclusion for Gaucher, the commonest on electroweak interactions. {3{3 decay is dence of a dozen autosomal recessive of all the storage diseases3-- • Five com­ very slow, and few positive cases are known either from direct laboratory diseases at high frequencies in eastern mon mutations collectively account for European (Ashkenazi) Jewsu. Best­ about 97 per cent of Jewish Gaucher observation or through the geochemical known are Tay-Sachs disease (which is disease alleles. Each mutant allele has a method of daughter isotope accumulation (the latter is possible only when the always fatal) and Gaucher disease (which measured or estimated heterozygote fre­ is often serious), both with heterozygote quency of 0.05-2.8 per cent- far higher daughter isotope is exceedingly scarce, in frequencies of several per cent. Why than could be

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Published: Mar 24, 1994

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