Tay Sachs Disease: Tay-Sachs disease, a heritable metabolic disorder commonly associated with Ashkenazi Jews, has also been found in the French Canadians of Southeastern Quebec, the Cajuns of ... more about Tay Sachs Disease.
Tay Sachs Disease: A condition which is causes GM2 gangliosidosis. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Tay Sachs Disease is available below.
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Prognosis for Tay Sachs Disease: The severity of expression and the age at onset of Tay-Sachs varies from infantile and juvenile forms that exhibit paralysis, dementia, blindness and early death to a chronic adult form that exhibits neuron dysfunction and psychosis. (Source: Genes and Disease by the National Center for Biotechnology) ... Even with the best of care, children with Tay-Sachs disease usually die by age 5. (Source: excerpt from NINDS Tay-Sachs Disease Information Page: NINDS)
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Tay-Sachs disease, a heritable metabolic disorder commonly associated with Ashkenazi Jews, has also been found in the French Canadians of Southeastern Quebec, the Cajuns of Southwest Louisiana, and other populations throughout the world. (Source: Genes and Disease by the National Center for Biotechnology)
Tay-Sachs disease is a fatal genetic disorder in which harmful quantities of a fatty substance called ganglioside GM2 accumulate in the nerve cells in the brain. (Source: excerpt from NINDS Tay-Sachs Disease Information Page: NINDS)
An autosomal recessive inherited gangliosidosis characterized by the onset in the first 6 months of life of an exaggerated startle response, delay in psychomotor development, hypotonia (followed by spasticity), visual loss, and a macular cherry red spot. Hexosaminidase A (see BETA-N-ACETYLHEXOSAMINIDASE) is deficient, leading to the accumulation of GM2 ganglioside in neurons of the central nervous system and retina. This condition is strongly associated with Askenazic Jewish ancestory. (Menkes, Textbook of Pediatric Neurology, 5th ed pp89-96) - (Source - Diseases Database)
Tay Sachs Disease is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that Tay Sachs Disease, or a subtype of Tay Sachs Disease,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ophanet, a consortium of European partners,
currently defines a condition rare when it affects 1 person per 2,000.
They list Tay Sachs Disease as a "rare disease".
Source - Orphanet
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