## Abstract Familial Dysautonomia is an autosomal recessive disease with a remarkably high carrier frequency in the Ashkenazi Jewish population. It has recently been estimated that as many as 1 in 27 Ashkenazi Jews is a carrier of FD. The FD gene has been identified as __IKBKAP__, and two diseaseβc
The transmission of jewish identity among families in a non-jewish neighborhood
β Scribed by Stuart Schoenfeld
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 544 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0147-1694
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