Tay-Sachs Disease
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...St. Lawrence region, certain Cajuns in Louisiana, and some Amish communities. Tay-Sachs is an autosomal recessive disorder...each parent) in order for the disease to occur. Carriers, people with only one gene for the disorder, are physically unaffected...