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  2. Medical genetics of Jews - Wikipedia

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    TaySachs disease, which can present as a fatal illness of children that causes mental deterioration prior to death, was historically extremely common among Ashkenazi Jews, [19] with lower levels of the disease in some Pennsylvania Dutch, Italian, Irish Catholic, and French Canadian descent, especially those living in the Cajun community of ...

  3. Tay–Sachs disease - Wikipedia

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    Ashkenazi Jews have a high incidence of TaySachs and other lipid storage diseases. In the United States, about 1 in 27 to 1 in 30 Ashkenazi Jews is a recessive carrier. The disease incidence is about 1 in every 3,500 newborn among Ashkenazi Jews. [39]

  4. Societal and cultural aspects of Tay–Sachs disease - Wikipedia

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    Ashkenazi Jews have been screened as TaySachs carriers since carrier testing began in 1971. Since the 1970s, many Jewish communities have embraced genetic screening, and in 1971, Israel became the first country to offer free genetic screening [1] and counseling for TaySachs disease and other diseases, leading to international discussion about the proper scope of genetic testing.

  5. Dor Yeshorim - Wikipedia

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    Dor Yeshorim (Hebrew: דור ישרים) also called Committee for Prevention of Jewish Genetic Diseases, is a nonprofit organization that offers genetic screening to members of the Jewish community worldwide. Its objective is to minimize, and eventually eliminate, the incidence of genetic disorders common to Jewish people, such as TaySachs ...

  6. Sphingolipidoses - Wikipedia

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    Taken together, sphingolipidoses have an incidence of approximately 1 in 10,000, but substantially more in certain populations such as Ashkenazi Jews. Enzyme replacement therapy is available to treat mainly Fabry disease and Gaucher disease, and people with these types of sphingolipidoses may live well into adulthood. The other types are ...

  7. Michael Kaback - Wikipedia

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    Although no cure for TaySachs disease has been found, antenatal genetic screening has virtually eliminated the disease in the Ashkenazi Jewish population in both the United States and Israel. In 1979, Kaback served on the first National Institutes of Health (NIH) panel to recommend antenatal diagnosis in cases where a couple might be at risk ...

  8. 23andMe user data targeting Ashkenazi Jews leaked online - AOL

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    Hackers have compiled a giant apparent list of people with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry after taking that information from the genetic testing service 23andMe, which is now being shared on the internet.

  9. Howard Ronald Kaback - Wikipedia

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    Howard Ronald Kaback was an American biochemist, known for Kabackosomes, the cell-free membrane transport vesicles.He was the brother of Michael M. Kaback, pediatrician and human geneticist, who developed a screening program to detect and prevent TaySachs disease, a rare and fatal genetic disorder most common in Ashkenazi Jews.