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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 17.
Published in final edited form as: J Inherit Metab Dis. 2012 Sep 12;36(3):575–580. doi: 10.1007/s10545-012-9527-5

Table 3.

Characteristic of Gaucher disease type 1 patients, GBA1 heterozygotes, and non-carriers

Parkinsonism No parkinsonism p values
Gaucher disease type 1 n=7 n=74
Women, n (%) 6 (85.7) 42 (56.8) 0.23
Age of onset of parkinsonism, y 41 (40, 65) -
Age at ascertainment, y 63 (42, 72) 47 (42, 54) 0.03
Ascertained at age >60, n (%) 5 (71.4) 8 (10.8) 0.001
Ascertained family member with parkinsonism, n (%) 3 (42.9) 19 (25.7) 0.38
Age GD diagnosis, y 47 (31,60) 32 (21, 42) 0.02
GD treatment, n (%) 3 (42.9) 82 (78.4) 0.06
Age GD treatment, y 54 (33,65) 40 (34,47) 0.28
GBA1 heterozygotes n=18 n=189
Women, n (%) 10 (55.6) 87 (46.0) 0.44
Age of onset of parkinsonism, y 62.5 (55, 67) -
Age at ascertainment, y 67.5 (60, 72) 50 (41, 68) 0.006
Ascertained at age >60, n (%) 13 (72.2) 72 (38.1) 0.005
Ascertained family member with parkinsonism, n (%) 8 (44.4) 46 (24.3) 0.09
Genotype, n (%) 0.006*
N370S 3 (16.7) 96 (50.8)
non-N370S 15 (83.3) 93 (49.2)
Non-carriers n=1 n=44
Women 1 21 (47.7)
Age of onset of parkinsonism, y 63 -
Age at ascertainment, y 65 53 (40, 62)
Ascertained at age >60, n (%) 1 13 (29.5)
Ascertained family member with parkinsonism, n (%) 0 3 (6.8)

Years are reported as medians with interquartile ranges unless otherwise specified

*

p value is for the 2×2 chi-squared test