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Beautiful -

I wasn't aware of the Tay-Sachs susceptibility, so you do have me there. But, thanks to your link(!), I learned:

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Proactive testing has been quite effective in eliminating Tay-Sachs occurrence among Ashkenazi Jews, both in Israel and in the diaspora. On January 18, 2005, the Israeli English language daily Haaretz reported that as a "Jewish disease" Tay-Sachs had almost been eradicated. Of the 10 babies born with Tay-Sachs in North America in 2003, none had been born to Jewish families. In Israel, only one child was born with Tay-Sachs in 2003, and preliminary results from early 2005 indicated that none were born with the disease in 2004.

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GREAT SUCCESS!

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Its more than just Tay-Sachs, I think there are a lot of very rare metabolic disorders that are vastly overrepresented among Ashkenazi Jews.