Describe the symptoms and causes of phenylketonuria and Tay-Sachs disease. How are these diseases related to one another?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Each of these diseases is an example of an inherited metabolic disorder. Phenylketonuria is an inherited lack of an enzyme that results in the buildup in blood of a toxic metabolite of phenylalanine (resulting in severe mental retardation). During a critical period of postnatal brain development, the PKU child is placed on a low phenylalanine diet. Tay-Sachs disease is a disease in which the lysosomes are unable to destroy certain cellular waste products, which accumulate to toxic levels.
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