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A Genetic Disease or Disorder

 There are many diseases that you are born with because of your genetics. The diseases I chose were Tay - Sachs disease. This disease causes problems with your nervous system. It is caused by absence of a vital enzyme called hexosaminidase-A. Hexosaminidase-A causes your body to break down. In this essay that I’m writing I’m going to tell you about if its inherited, is there a cure for it, and if it is dominant or recessive.

 Tay-Sachs is inherited. With kids it grows while they are coming out of their parents. Some kids attend to appear normal until the age of 3-6 months. They start to appear with seizures, hearing and vision lost, and disability. Kids with this disease usually live into early childhood years. This disease is rare. You might not catch. Only a couple of people can get it. So if you are thinking about having a baby you should really get a blood test before you have a baby so he or she will not be endangered.

 There is no cure for this disease. This those fatty proteins build up in the brain in a kid. As they build they hurt the baby's sight, hearing, movement, and mental development. A treatment can be giving for the baby and it would stop from hurting for awhile, but there is no cure for this. The risk is not big, but it is very dangerous and you should be careful.

Tay-Sachs is recessive. You’re more likely have the chances of not catching it, but it also had it dominant traits. If you have it you mostly likely want catch much of what your parents had. You should be really lucky if you don’t have it.

I believe that every disease could have a cure if people cared about it enough. Like tay-sachs I think that if people were really worried about this disease as much as cancer they could have a cure. Also this is not a disease it’s a disorder because if you have it you were born with it that is another reason for not having a cure. I really wish I could have found more research to see how deadly this was or was it just something that could throw off one of your normal functions. But this is not a disease it’s a disorder.