Gaucher
Proper noun
Meaning
Gaucher (plural Gauchers)
A surname from French.
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Carrier testing for Gaucher disease type 1 is recommended by the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) for people of Ashkenazi Jewish descent considering having children.
Gaucher was highly eloquent about his own practice, as can be seen in the film appended to the exhibition, made during a show he had at the Powerplant in Toronto in the 1990s.
The GBA gene normally produces an enzyme that breaks down lipids, but in the childhood disorder Gaucher disease, a near total lack of this enzyme activity leads to massive and usually fatal elevations of lipids inside cells.