Human Health Exposure Analysis Resource

Last uploaded: July 19, 2024
Id http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_3320
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_3320
Preferred Name

Tay-Sachs disease

Definitions
A GM2 gangliosidosis that is characterized onset in infancy of developmental retardation, followed by paralysis, dementia and blindness, with death in the second or third year of life and has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the alpha subunit of the hexosaminidase A gene (HEXA) on chromosome 15q23. OMIM mapping confirmed by DO. [SN].
Synonyms
GM2 gangliosidosis, type 1
hexosaminidase A deficiency
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