Lipid storage diseases are inherited from one or both parents who carry a defective gene that regulates a particular protein in a class of the body’s cells. #NIH

They can be inherited two ways:
Autosomal recessive inheritance occurs when both parents carry and pass on a copy of the faulty gene, but neither parent is affected by the disorder.
X-linked (or sex-linked) recessive inheritance occurs when the mother carries the affected gene on the X chromosome that determines the child’s gender and passes it to her son.

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