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No; this is a common misconception. Anyone whose parents are both carriers of the gene for Tay-Sachs disease (TSD) may become afflicted with TSD. That being said, TSD is most common among the Ashkenazi Jewish population as approximately 1 in every 27 Ashkenazi Jewish people is a carrier of the faulty gene. In the general population, about 1 in every 300 people carries the gene for TSD. In the French-Canadian population, the Cajun population of Louisiana, and the Amish population of Pennsylvania, the faulty gene that causes TSD is a little bit more common (but still less common than in the Ashkenazi Jewish population).
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What is the percentage of kids with Tay-Sachs?
there are only about 16 cases diagnosed a year. This disease is mainly effects Ashkenazi Jews, and 1 in 27 of them will have Tay-Sachs, so about 3 1/2% of Ashkenazi Jews will inherit Tay-Sachs
Do Eastern European Jews carry this Tay Sachs disease?
Some of them do.
Tay-Sachs disease is a human?
Tay-Sachs disease is a human genetic disorder.
What effect does Tay Sachs disease have on the body?
what effect does Tay-sachs disease have on the body?
How does Tay-sachs disease differ from an infectious disease such as pneumonia?
Tay-sachs disease differs from an infectious disease because it is a hereditary disease, so it can only be passed from parents to their offspring.
How is Tay Sachs Disease inherited?
A mutation of the HEX A gene of chromosome 15 causes Tay-Sachs disease. As a result, the protein hexosaminidase A is not formed properly and GM2 ganglioside, the lipid normally broken down by hexosaminidase A, accumulates to toxic levels (especially in the brain).
What system or part of the body does tay sachs disease affect?
what effect does Tay-sachs disease have on the body?
Can a person with the Tay-Sachs disease live a healthy life?
A person with tay sachs can live a healthy life but still battles the many limitations of Tay sachs disease. Depending on the type of tay sachs, Classic, Juvenile onset, and Late Onset depends how healthy a life a person with tay sachs disease.
How often does Tay-Sachs disease occur in the population?
About 16 cases of Tay-Sachs disease are diagnosed each year.
It is estimated that 1 in 30 Ashkenazi Jews carries the genetic marker for what disease?
PCH=Tay Sachs
Recessive disorder that results from the absence of an enzyme required to break lipids down?
tay-sachs disease
Is tay sachs disease sex-linked?
There is no evidence that shows that tay-sachs is a sex-linked trait.
