Tay-Sachs disease

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are rare , but they are possibly handed down from the parents’ genes , or maybe new mutations . One example of a genetic disorder is Tay Sachs disease . Another example of a disorder is polycystic kidney disease . What Does Genetic Testing Tell You Genetic testing gives you an idea if you’re at risk of a certain disease or not . If two parents both have a disease then the child will have a 25% chance of obtaining the condition . If one person has it and the other partner does not , the child…

values, and possibly, against nature itself; the argument that the benefits of possessing the power over individual traits and immunities is a rather intriguing concept. Alterations made to correct deformities or to prevent the terrible diseases such as Tay-Sachs syndrome will improve the overall quality of the human gene pool. Today, gene alteration is still in its early stages, which means it is mainly used in experimental research. With its vast job field and impressive findings there is no…

#1: “Curse and a Blessing” Question 1 Jared Diamond, author of “Curse and Blessing”, wrote this piece regarding the disease known as Tay-Sachs. His main hypothesis consists of the idea that Tay-Sachs is prominent in the eastern European Jewish culture, which seemingly has a lower rate of deaths from tuberculosis. Children who receive the homozygous recessive allele gained from Tay-Sachs heterozygous parents, suffer uncontrollable laughter, shaking, muscle control, drooling, sometimes even…

PGD: Prevent Giving Diseases For ages, it has been a natural instinct for animals to want to procreate to pass on their genes to future generations. Likewise, humans also share this instinct, but recent technology has taken this a step further, sparking a great deal of controversy. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a reproductive technology which can be used in conjunction with in vitro fertilization (IVF) for the diagnosis of a genetic disease in embryos prior to implantation and…

Impacts of Genetic Screening For Parents Genetic screening is defined as "any kind of test performed for the systematic early detection or exclusion of a hereditary disease, the preposition to such a disease or to determine whether a person carries a predisposition that may produce a hereditary disease in offspring." (Godard, Beatrice et al.) Genetic screening is commonly performed for reasons associated with fertility and pregnancy, and, being a relatively new frontier in genetic research,…

The absence of disease or the promotion of wellbeing is the primary goal of public health work. The first level of prevention is to avert the disease or injury from even occurring. Public health’s biomedical research has seen great advances toward prevention. Public health measures have successfully mitigated infectious disease, environmental teratogens, and even genetic disorders. The identification of how underlying factors play an adverse role in an individual’s health have enabled a…

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Principal uses of epidemiology: o Historical use- study of historical cases within a population to determine patterns of mortality and morbidity. [Diseases shape history; speculation of the plague leading to the fall of the Roman Empire] (http://duncansepidemiology.tripod.com/id8.html) o Community health use- study and diagnosis of health within certain communities to identify problem areas that need special treatment. [Chronic pain was found in different levels within a community based on…