Gaucher Disease: The N370S Mutation in Ashkenazi Jewish and Spanish Patients has a Common Origin and Arose Several Thousand Years Ago

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This work was supported by Comision Interministerial de Ciencia y Technologia (SAF 97-0074). We are grateful to Dr. E. Beutler for critical reading of the manuscript; to L. Gort, M. Martinez, and J. Armstrong for technical assistance; to R. Rycroft for revising the English; and to Dr. N. Espiro and Dr. J. Israel for helpful comments on Jewish history.