Problem

Tay-Sachs disease

Nature:

Tay-Sachs disease is a degenerative neurological condition that is fatal in early childhood. After the baby has developed normally for four or five months, it begins to weaken, have seizures and lose muscle control. It becomes blind and then paralyzed and dies after a few years. It is a familial disease linked to a single recessive gene.

Related Problems:
Gangliosidosis
Sandhoff disease
Aggravates:
Infant mortality
Values:
Disease
Subject(s):
Medicine Pathology
Problem Type:
E: Emanations of other problems
Date of last update
06.05.2019 – 16:37 CEST