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Disease Etiology

Tay-Sachs disease arises from a deficiency in beta-hexosaminidase A, which results in an accumulation of the GM2 ganglioside.

A variant disease known as Sandhoff's Activator disease is caused by a mutation in the activator protein for hexosaminidase A.


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