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Q: What is the longest a child has survived with tay sachs?
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What are facts about tay-sachs?

It was named after doctors Warren Tay and Bernard Sachs.


What dire conditions eventually result from Tay-Sachs disease?

Tay-Sachs disease eventaully causes the child to develops problems with breathing and swallowing. Blindness, paralysis, and death follow.


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?


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 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).


Is there any way to prevent tay sachs?

There are a couple ways Tay-Sachs can be prevented; 1) determine if both you and your mate carry the Tay-Sachs gene 2) perform a prenatal diagnosis to determine if the fetus carries the Tay-Sachs gene Hope this helped!


Why does Tay Sachs Diseasec occur?

It is transmitted genetically, from parent to child (via DNA sequences).


Is tay sachs disease sex-linked?

There is no evidence that shows that tay-sachs is a sex-linked trait.


Is tay-sachs a sex-linked disease?

There is no evidence that shows that tay-sachs is a sex-linked trait.


How Long Is Its Incubation Period For Tay Sachs?

Sorry, Tay-Sachs is not a germ-caused infectious disease, so there is no incubation period, at all. Tay-Sachs is inherited from a person's mother and father.


What system or part of the body does tay sachs disease affect?

what effect does Tay-sachs disease have on the body?