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Tay-Sachs Disease
Citations
Vallance H, Ford J (2003). Carrier testing for autosomal-recessive disorders. Clinical Laboratory Sciences, 40(4): 473–497.
Committee on Genetics, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2005, reaffirmed 2007). Screening for Tay-Sachs disease. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 106(4): 893–894.
Other Works Consulted
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.
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.
Martino S, et al. (2005). A direct gene transfer strategy via brain internal capsule reverses the biochemical defect in Tay-Sachs disease. Human Molecular Genetics, 14(15): 2113–2123.
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: | Healthwise Staff | Last Revised: May 11, 2011 |
| Medical Review: | John Pope, MD - Pediatrics Siobhan M. Dolan, MD, MPH - Reproductive Genetics | |
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