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ReviewMolecular genetics and metabolism

Gaucher disease: Progress and ongoing challenges.

Pramod K Mistry, Grisel Lopez, Raphael Schiffmann, Norman W Barton, Neal J Weinreb, Ellen Sidransky

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Review in Molecular genetics and metabolism. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 86 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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86citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

86 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 154 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  14. An Overview of Gaucher Disease.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  19. Women with Gaucher Disease.Biomedicines · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Pramod K MistryYale University School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, 333 Cedar Street, LMP 1080, P.O. Box 208019, New Haven, CT 06520-8019, United States. Electronic address: Pramod.mistry@yale.edu.
Grisel LopezMedical Genetics Branch, NHGRI, NIH, Bldg 35A Room 1E623, 35 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Electronic address: glopez@mail.nih.gov.
Raphael SchiffmannInstitute of Metabolic Disease, Baylor Research Institute, Dallas, TX 75226, United States. Electronic address: Raphael.Schiffmann@BSWHealth.org.
Norman W BartonTherapeutic Area Head Neuroscience, Shire plc, 300 Shire Way, Lexington, MA 02421, United States. Electronic address: nbarton@shire.com.
Neal J WeinrebUniversity of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics and Medicine (Hematology), UHealth Sylvester Coral Springs, 8170 Royal Palm Boulevard, Coral Springs, FL 33065, United States. Electronic address: boneal@winning.com.
Ellen SidranskyMedical Genetics Branch, NHGRI, NIH, Bldg 35A Room 1E623, 35 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Electronic address: sidranse@mail.nih.gov.
National Human Genome Research Institute · USTakeda (United States) · USUniversity of Miami Health System · USYale University · US

Funding

Genetic and clinical studies of Gaucher disease and other lysosomal disordersZIAHG200336 · NHGRI · NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI SIDRANSKY, ELLEN · 2009 to 2025
$45.2M
Understanding the skeletal phenotype of Gaucher diseaseR01AR065932 · NIAMS · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI MISTRY, PRAMOD K, ZAIDI, MONE · 2013 to 2017
$2.6M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 HG999999NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR065932
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the past decades, tremendous progress has been made in the field of Gaucher disease, the inherited deficiency of the lysosomal enzyme glucocerebrosidase. Many of the colossal achievements took place during the course of the sixty-year tenure of Dr. Roscoe Brady at the National Institutes of Health. These include the recognition of the enzymatic defect involved, the isolation and characterization of the protein, the localization and characterization of the gene and its nearby pseudogene, as well as the identification of the first mutant alleles in patients. The first treatment for Gaucher disease, enzyme replacement therapy, was conceived of, developed and tested at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health. Advances including recombinant production of the enzyme, the development of mouse models, pioneering gene therapy experiments, high throughput screens of small molecules and the generation of induced pluripotent stem cell models have all helped to catapult research in Gaucher disease into the twenty-first century. The appreciation that mutations in the glucocerebrosidase gene are an important risk factor for parkinsonism further expands the impact of this work. However, major challenges still remain, some of which are described here, that will provide opportunities, excitement and discovery for the next generations of Gaucher investigators.

Indexed as

MutationAnimalsEnzyme Replacement TherapyGaucher DiseaseGenetic TherapyGlucosylceramidaseHistory, 20th CenturyHistory, 21st CenturyHumansMiceNational Institutes of Health (U.S.)Small Molecule LibrariesUnited StatesGlucosylceramidaseSmall Molecule LibrariesDr. Roscoe BradyEnzyme replacement therapyGaucher diseaseGlucocerebrosidaseLysosomal storage disorderParkinsonism

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PMID27916601
PMCPMC5425955
OpenAlexW2559755333

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