How To Prevent Bright's Disease?

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Sphingomyelinase deficiency


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All types of Niemann-Pick are autosomal recessive. This means that both parents are carriers -- they each carry one copy of the abnormal gene without having any signs of the disease themselves.

When both parents are carriers, there is a 25% chance that their child will have the disease and a 50% chance that a child will be a carrier.

Carrier detection testing is only possible if the genetic defect is identified. The defects involved in Types A...

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