Newborn screening for Gaucher disease in Japan. 2022

Takaaki Sawada, and Jun Kido, and Keishin Sugawara, and Shinichiro Yoshida, and Shirou Matsumoto, and Tomoyuki Shimazu, and Yuki Matsushita, and Takahito Inoue, and Shinichi Hirose, and Fumio Endo, and Kimitoshi Nakamura
Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan.

Gaucher disease (GD) is an autosomal recessive inborn metabolic disorder caused by a glucocerebrosidase (GCase) defect. GD is classified into three main types depending on accompanying neurological symptoms. Enzyme replacement therapy and substrate reduction therapy are limited in the treatment of neurological symptoms, and using genotype and GCase activity to discriminate between non-neuronopathic and neuronopathic GD may be challenging as the two sometimes phenotypically overlap. The number of patients exhibiting neurological symptoms in Japan is significantly higher than that in Europe and the United States, and newborn screening (NBS) is still not actively performed in Japan. Definitive determination of the actual frequency and proportion of the type of GD from the results of NBS remains inconclusive. We performed NBS for Fabry disease, Pompe disease, and GD, mainly in the Kyushu area in Japan. Herein, we discuss the results of NBS for GD, as well as, the insights gained from following the clinical course of patients diagnosed through NBS. A total of 155,442 newborns were screened using an enzyme activity assay using dried blood spots. We found four newborns showing lower GCase activity and were definitively diagnosed with GD by GBA gene analysis. The frequency of GD diagnosis through NBS was 1 in 77,720 when limited to the probands. This frequency is higher than that previously estimated in Japan. In the future, NBS for GD is expected to be performed in many regions of Japan and contribute to detecting more patients with GD. Early screening and diagnosis may have a very significant impact on the quality of life and potentially longevity in infants with GD.

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