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Tay-Sachs Disease What if I told you that there was a disease that could cause your muscles to weaken. That it could also cause your brothers or sisters to die at an early age. Tay-Sachs Disease is a genetic disorder that usually happens in infants and the symptoms don’t show until the 5-6 months. This disease kills thousands if not hundreds of thousands. Tay-Sachs Disease symptoms are diagnosed according to what causes Tay-Sachs. Tay-Sachs is not inherited. Doctors, after diagnosis, will prescribe treatment. Tay-Sachs is generally found in infants also(Genome.gov) Origin of Discovery The origin of discovery of Tay-Sachs disease is very common to today's discovery. It was discovered in a hospital by Warren Tay (1843-1927) he was a british ophthalmologist who in 1881 described a patient with a cherry-red spot on the eye. The first name of the disease was the first man who discovered it then another man discovered it in New York, his name was Bernard Sachs, he was a neurologist whose work several years and later provided the first description of the cellular changes on Tay-Sachs disease. The disease was named after the two men who discovered this…

The Tay-Sachs disease was named after ophthalmologist Warren Tay he was the first to spot the cherry- red retina and now it the marker of this bad disease. Another man Bernard Sachs a neurologist was the first to describe the changes in the brain prevalence. Tay-Sachs the disease is something that is inherited from both parents it is when both parents carry the Tay-Sachs gene and both parent transmits the gene that is defective to their child. If a child inherits two Tay-Sachs genes from both…

In the 1980’s, Nancy Wexler contributed to advances in medicine by discovering a genetic marker that could indicate inherited disorders linked to chromosomes, such as Down’s Syndrome, Huntington’s Disease, and Tay-Sachs Disease (Vaughn, 2013, p. 566). Since then, prenatal genetic screenings have become widely accessible through simple, low-risk procedures such as carrier testing, blood tests, and ultrasounds. These procedures are only capable of reporting the risk for inheriting abnormalities…

In the downs of a small farm, two rabbits are getting ready to flee their warren in an effort to escape the dangers of men come to kill them. Richard Adam’s Watership Down follows these two rabbits - named Hazel and Fiver - as they gather a following and make their way across the farmland to safety. The band of misfits looks to Hazel for guidance, and he leads them to their haven. A warren is established atop the hills where the rabbits are safe and sound. However, the need to keep the warren…

Tay-Sachs disease (TSD), also called GM2 gangliosidosis, is an uncommon disorder that is genetically inherited, which progressively destroys cells in the central nervous system. The central nervous system consists of the brain and the spinal cord. Because the disorder is autosomal recessive, both parents must have the mutation in the gene in order for the child to be a carrier or have the disease. A child with parents that are both carriers has a 25 percent chance of getting Tay-Sachs and 50…

In the year 1989, the daughter of Renee and David Abshire died at the age of three to an incurable inheritable disease known as Tay- Sachs. The couple believed they would never have baby again, however, in the year 1994 the couple introduced to the world a completely healthy baby by the name of Brittany Nicole Abshire. Brittany was a special child. She was the first child in the world to be successfully screened for the incurable disease Tay-Sachs using the genetic testing method of…

Tay-Sachs is a deadly disease present in infants and newborns. The disease is passed on by people from many different descents and regions. There are no known links to an explanation why these descents are known carriers of the gene. The gene is known to not be present within the first 3-6 months, growing and thriving like a healthy child would. A tay sachs kid gets its genes from if both the parents have the tay sachs gene and hand it off to the child. A kid can get the gene passed down to them…

choose not to have a child at all because of the pain that the disease will bring for the child and the grief for the parents that the child could cause. However, with the great technology of PGD it will help to increase the chances of producing a healthy baby as it can screen for all genetic disorders that are known and heritable. This will most likely increase the chances of the couple having a baby because they know that using PGD can increase the life expectancy of the child helping the…

Tay - Sachs disease is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern , this means the two alleles in each cell are mutated. The parents of an individual with an autosomal recessive condition each possess one copy of the mutant allele and are unaffected heterozygous carriers. Tay - Sachs disease deteriorates neurons in the brain and spinal cord. The most common form of Tay - Sachs disease is evident in infancy. Infants who inherit the disorder generally appear unaffected until the age of 3 to 6…

Tay-sachs disease is a rare disorder that is caused from a missing enzyme that is used to break down fatty substances. The fatty substance is Gangliosides, which begins to build up to a toxic level in a child’s brain and begins to affect their nerve cells. As the disease begins to progress in the child, the control of their muscles weakens and it leads to blindness, paralysis, and eventually death. Symptoms begin to show in the first three to six months of an infant's life, but it can be…