WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A CARRIER OF TAY-SACHS DISEASE?
Source: www.permanente.net Topic: Tay-Sachs Download: Click here! Sort Desciption: You should know that being a carrier for Tay-Sachs disease is not an illness and does not affect your own health. In fact, you would probably not have found out that you are a carrier unless you had a special blood test. … Content Inside: You should know that being a carrier for Tay-Sachs disease is not an illness and does not affect your own health. In fact, you would probably not have found out that you are a carrier unless you had a special blood test. Being a carrier simply means that one of the two copies of the gene that can cause Tay-Sachs disease has a change that keeps it from working properly. You do not have symptoms of this disease because you only have one copy of the gene that is not working (it takes two non-working copies of the gene to cause the disease). The only way your baby could have this condition is if BOTH you AND your partner are carriers, so the next step is to test your part
