DOI: 10.36347/sajp.2021.v10i07.001

Pages: 111-114

Tay-Sachs disease is a rare hereditary disease that increasingly destroys nerve cells (neurons) in the brain and nerve structure. The foremost common variety of monogenic disorder becomes apparent in infancy. Babies with this disease usually look traditional till the age of three to six months, once their development slows and muscles used for movement weaken. Affected infants lose motor skills like turning over, sitting, and travel. They additionally develop Associate in nursing exaggerated start to loud noises. Because the sickness progresses, youngsters with monogenic disorder expertise seizures, vision and deafness, intellectual incapacity, and disfunction. Youngsters with this severe infantile variety of monogenic disorder sometimes live solely into infancy.