tay-sachs
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1. a hereditary disorder of lipid metabolism occurring most frequently in individuals of Jewish descent in eastern Europe; accumulation of lipids in nervous tissue results in death in early childhood (noun.state)
| hypernym | : | monogenic disease, monogenic disorder, |
| definition | : | an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes (noun.state) |
| hypernym | : | autosomal recessive defect, autosomal recessive disease, |
| definition | : | a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome (noun.state) |
| hypernym | : | lipidosis, |
| definition | : | a disorder of lipid metabolism; abnormal levels of certain fats accumulate in the body (noun.state) |
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