tay sachs is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder.
tay sachs is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder.
what type of genetic disorder is tay sachs?
autosomal recessive
until the 1970s and 1980s, when the disease's molecular genetics became known, the juvenile and adult forms of the disease were not always recognized as variants of tay–sachs disease. post-infantile tay–sachs was often misdiagnosed as another neurological disorder, such as friedreich's ataxia.









































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tay–sachs disease is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder, meaning that when both parents are carriers, there is a 25% risk of giving birth to an affected child with each pregnancy. the affected child would have received a mutated copy of the gene from each parent.
tay–sachs disease
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bullet::::- robert j. desnick and michael m. kaback (editors). "tay sachs disease". academic press, 2001. .









































bullet::::- kaback, michael m. (2001). "the 'asilomar process' and the human genome project." "perspectives in biology and medicine" vol 44:2. johns hopkins university press. pp. 230–234.









































bullet::::- kaback, michael m. (1993) et al. "tay sachs disease — carrier screening, prenatal diagnosis, and the molecular era: an international perspective, 1970 to 1993." "journal of the american medical association" vol 270:19 pp. 2307–2315.
michael kaback