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    Tay-Sachs Disease



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    Citations

    1. Committee on Genetics, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2009). Preconception and prenatal carrier screening for genetic diseases in individuals of Eastern European Jewish descent. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 114(4): 950–953.

    2. Committee on Genetics, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2005, reaffirmed 2010). Screening for Tay-Sachs disease. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 106(4): 893–894.

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    • Haslam RHA (2006). Degenerative diseases of the central nervous system. In FD Burg et al., eds., Current Pediatric Therapy, 18th ed., pp. 388–392. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier.

    • Neudorfer O, Kolodny EH (2004). Late-onset Tay-Sachs disease. Israel Medical Association Journal, 6: 107–111.

    • Ropper AH, Samuels MA (2009). Inherited metabolic diseases of early childhood section of Inherited metabolic diseases of the nervous system. In Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology, 9th ed., pp. 922–926. New York: McGraw-Hill.




    By: Reference Healthwise Staff Last Revised: Reference September 6, 2011
    Medical Review: Reference Sarah Marshall, MD - Family Medicine
    Reference Siobhan M. Dolan, MD, MPH - Reproductive Genetics


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