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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: sachs disease + tay-sachs disease: + disease  Related to the article below (Last Update: 8/5/2008)

Investigating Jewish Genetic Illnesses
Connecticut Jewish Ledger, CT - Jul 24, 2008
... Canavan Disease, Familial Dysautonomia, Fanconia Anemia, Gaucher Disease, Mucolipidosis IV, Niemann Pick Disease, Tay-Sachs Disease and Torsion Dystonia ...
Home genetic tests: How much do you really want to know?
Independent, UK - Jul 11, 2008
... population where one in 30 carried the Tay-Sachs gene and where testing resulted in a 90 per cent reduction in births of children carrying the disease. ...
Israeli scientists among speakers at conference
St.Louis Jewishlight.com, MO - Jul 31, 2008
The clinic routinely screens embryos for genetic diseases, such as Fragile X and Tay-Sachs. Genetic screening is not considered controversial in Israel, ...
Dakota Bihn now going to school
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - Jul 7, 2008
... umbilical cord-blood transplant 2 1⁄2 years ago to try to arrest her juvenile Tay-Sachs disease, an extremely rare and fatal inherited condition? ...
Researchers Hope Four Genes and Some Chemicals Ease Stem Cell ...
Voice of San Diego, CA - Jul 17, 2008
A team led by Evan Snyder has shown in mice that stem cells may be able to supply missing enzymes to babies with Tay-Sachs disease n a genetic disorder in ...
Roundup: Obama on Late Term Abortion
RH Reality Check, DC - Jul 7, 2008
Should a woman be forced to carry to term a fetus that has Tay Sachs disease? Imagine her daily life for those remaining weeks, having strangers ...
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Tay-Sachs Disease: Generalized Absence of a Beta-DN-Acetylhexosaminidase Component -
S Okada, JS O'Brien - Science, 1969 - sciencemag.org
Tay-Sachs Disease: Generalized Absence of a Beta-DN-Acetylhexosaminidase Component ...
blood plasma, and leukocytes from nine patients with Tay-Sachs disease. ...

Mouse models of Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases differ in neurologic phenotype and ganglioside … -
K Sango, S Yamanaka, A Hoffmann, Y Okuda, A … - Nat Genet, 1995 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... Although exhibiting biochemical and pathologic features of the disease,
the Tay-Sachs model showed no neurological abnormalities. ...

… of the Hexa gene results in mice with biochemical and pathologic features of Tay-Sachs disease. -
S Yamanaka, MD Johnson, A Grinberg, H Westphal, JN … - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the …, 1994 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... Copyright notice. Targeted disruption of the Hexa gene results in mice with
biochemical and pathologic features of Tay-Sachs disease. ...

Prevention of Lysosomal Storage in Tay-Sachs Mice Treated with N-Butyldeoxynojirimycin -
FM Platt, GR Neises, G Reinkensmeier, MJ Townsend, … - Science, 1997 - sciencemag.org
... This would include Gaucher (types 1, 2, and 3), Fabry disease, Tay-Sachs disease,
Sandhoff disease, G M1 gangliosidosis, and fucosidosis. ...

The major defect in Ashkenazi Jews with Tay-Sachs disease is an insertion in the gene for the alpha- … -
R Myerowitz, FC Costigan - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1988 - ASBMB
... The Major Defect in Ashkenazi Jews with Tay-Sachs Disease Is an Insertion
in the Gene for the at-Chain of &Hexosaminidase* (Received ...

… - hexosaminidase alpha- subunit gene (the gene defect of Tay- Sachs disease) in mouse brains … -
HD Lacorazza, JD Flax, EY Snyder, M Jendoubi - Nature Medicine, 1996 - nature.com
... Expression of human -hexosaminidase -subunit gene (the gene defect of Tay-Sachs
disease) in mouse brains upon engraftment of transduced progenitor cells. ...

… chitobiase structure provides insight into catalytic mechanism and the basis of Tay?Sachs disease -
I Tews, A Perrakis, A Oppenheim, Z Dauter, KS … - Nature Structural Biology, 1996 - nature.com
... nsb0796-638 Bacterial chitobiase structure provides insight into catalytic
mechanism and the basis of Tay-Sachs disease. Ivo Tews ...

Identification of an altered splice site in Ashkenazi Tay-Sachs disease -
E Arpaia, A Dumbrille-Ross, T Maler, K Neote, M … - Nature, 1988 - nature.com
Nature 333, 85 - 86 (05 May 1988); doi:10.1038/333085a0. Identification
of an altered splice site in Ashkenazi Tay-Sachs disease. ...

… in mouse models of GM2 gangliosidosis and observations on human Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases -
JQ Huang, JM Trasler, S Igdoura, J Michaud, N … - Human Molecular Genetics - Oxford Univ Press
... from the inability to catabolize G M2 ganglioside by [beta]-hexosaminidase A (Hex
A) due to mutations of the [alpha] subunit (Tay-Sachs disease) or [beta ...

The Tay-Sachs disease gene in North American Jewish populations: geographic variations and origin. -
GM Petersen, JI Rotter, RM Cantor, LL Field, S … - American Journal of Human Genetics, 1983 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... Copyright notice. The Tay-Sachs disease gene in North American Jewish populations:
geographic variations and origin. ... Population dynamics of Tay-Sachs disease. ...

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Tay-Sachs Disease

Tay-Sachs disease is an inherited condition that usually causes death by the age of three or four.

Symptoms

Tay-Sachs is marked by developmental problems that start early and gradually get worse. Symptoms include paralysis, mental confusion, blindness and red spots in the retina at the back of the eye.

Causes and Risk Factors

A recessive gene is at the root of this disorder. (When a gene is recessive, it means that a child must inherit the gene from both parents for the condition to develop.) The gene is more common in Jewish families of Eastern European heritage. Tay-Sachs patients lack a certain enzyme that causes problems in the brain. (An enzyme is a type of complex protein produced by the cells that helps start certain biological and chemical reactions inside the body.)

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Diagnosis

There is no cure for this condition. Before starting a family, it is important to seek genetic screening and counseling. The amniotic fluid that surrounds the baby in the womb can be tested before the baby is born (prenatal diagnostic testing) to find out if the baby has inherited a pair of the gene that causes Tay-Sachs.

Treatment

No specific treatment is currently known.

 
 
 
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