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Canavan Disease Apparently normal at birth, babies with Canavan Disease develop an enlarged head, mental retardation, feeding difficulties and seizures.
Canavan disease is characterized by macrocephaly, lack of head control, and developmental delays by the age of three to five months, severe hypotonia, and failure to achieve independent sitting, ambulation, or speech.
For over a decade, Ashkenazi Jewish families of children with Canavan disease provided body tissue and money, and the Canavan Foundation and the National Tay-Sachs and Allied Disease Association provided money, to a geneticist so that he could sequence the genetic mutation that caused this devastating neurological disease.
 
 
 
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