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Tay-Sachs Disease
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Tay-Sachs Disease
An analysis of the neurodegenerative ailment including its discovery, etiology, biochemistry, carriers and mutations.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
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1993
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"Tay.Sachs DiseaseTay.Sachs disease is one of the few neurodegenerative diseases of known cause (1:419). It results from a lysosomal storage disorder involving a defect in the hexosaminidase enzyme system causing the accumulation of sphingolipids (4:143.147).
The disease was first described by Warren Tay and Bernard Sachs about 100 years ago (3:189). It belongs to a group of diseases..the GM2 gangliosidoses..which, although they result from separate genetic mutations, each of which shares characteristics in common with the others (3:189). One of these characteristics is that all of the diseases are inherited by the autosomal recessive mode of transmission (4:143); another is that each results from a biochemical deficiency in the hydrolysis of GM2 ganglioside cells of the central and peripheral nervous..."
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"Tay-Sachs Disease" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Tay-Sachs-Disease/20065>
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