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Tay-Sachs disease is a human?
Tay-Sachs disease is a human genetic disorder.
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what does tay saks disease look like
What effect does Tay Sachs disease have on the body?
what effect does Tay-sachs disease have on the body?
What system or part of the body does tay sachs disease affect?
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 often does Tay-Sachs disease occur in the population?
About 16 cases of Tay-Sachs disease are diagnosed each year.
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.
who are famous people who have tay-sachs disease?
No celebrity has this disease
Recessive disorder that results from the absence of an enzyme required to break lipids down?
tay-sachs disease
What are other names for tay sachs disease?
Tay-Sachs disease is abbreviated to TSD and is also known as GM2 gangliosidosis or Hexosaminidase A deficiency.
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).
Can tay-sachs disease be detected by karyotyping?
Tay-Sach's has a defective gene on chromosme 15
