Tay-Sachs Disease

References

Citations

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2. Committee on Genetics, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2004). Prenatal and preconceptional carrier screening for genetic diseases in individuals of Eastern European Jewish descent. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 104(2): 425–428.

3. Committee on Genetics, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (2005, reaffirmed 2007). Screening for Tay-Sachs disease. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 106(4): 893–894.

4. 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.

Other Works Consulted

• 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.

• Neudorfer O, Kolodny EH (2004). Late-onset Tay-Sachs disease. Israel Medical Association Journal, 6: 107–111.

• Ropper AH , Brown RH (2005). The inherited metabolic diseases of the nervous system. In Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology, 8th ed., pp. 797–849. New York: McGraw-Hill.

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