What is National Tay Sachs and Allied Diseases Organization?
NTSAD is an organization dedicated to preventing Tay Sachs by educating the public about the disease. It is dedicated to supporting families who have children affected by the disease. It sustains an international quality control program for testing for the presence of the disease. Relying solely on private funding, the National Tay Sachs and Allied Diseases Organization is dedicated to furthering research into the disease. Although the disease affects the general population, the incidence is not high enough to warrant general screening. Tay Sachs is a genetic disease that invariably results in death to an afflicted child by the age of 5. There is no cure. To have a Tay Sachs child, both parents must carry the tay sachs gene. When both are carriers, the chance of having an afflicted child are one in four. In the general population, the incidence of Tay Sachs carriers is 1 in 250. In Irish Americans, the incidence increases to between 1:150 and 1:190. Carriers are most commonly found in
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