- Gaucher disease - causes the spleen to enlarge, anemia and bone lesions if untreated.
- Hurler syndrome - causes deformities of the skeleton and facial features, enlargement of the spleen and liver, mental retardation and deafness.
- Niemann-Pick B disease - leads to enlargement of the spleen and liver, as well as lung disease.
- Pompe disease - an fatal storage disease in which glycogen builds up in the liver, heart and muscle, especially during infancy (also known as acid maltase deficiency).
- Tay-Sachs disease - a lysosomal storage disease that causes degeneration of the brain in infants.
Don't vote for Lysosome. He is a main factor in diseases you may have never heard of before!2/17/2014
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