What’s Tay-Sachs disease?
What’s Tay-Sachs disease?
Tay-Sachs is a genetic disease caused by a missing enzyme. Cynthia Tifft, MD, PhD, director of NIH’s Pediatric Undiagnosed Diseases Program, describes who develops the disease and how it’s diagnosed in infants.
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