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Tay – Sachs can occur from the inheritance of either two similar, or two unrelated, causative mutations in the HEXA gene.
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* 1879 – The Tay Bridge Disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.
The Foreign Legion's First Battalion ( Lieutenant-Colonel Donnier ) was sent to Tonkin in the autumn of 1883, during the period of undeclared hostilities that preceded the Sino – French War ( August 1884 to April 1885 ), and formed part of the attack column that stormed the western gate of Son Tay on 16 December.
* 1982 – Tay Zonday, American actor and singer
* 1785 – Invading Siamese forces attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River by the Tay Son in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
* 1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast – A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there.
* February 12 – Tay Vinh massacre: Vietnam War.
** Vietnam War – Operation Ivory Coast: A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there ( no Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp ; all U. S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid ).
* July 22 – The foundation stone of the first Tay Rail Bridge is laid ; the bridge collapses in a storm eight years later.
* December 28 – The Tay Bridge disaster – the central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.
* January 20 – Invading Siamese forces, attempt to exploit the political chaos in Vietnam, but are ambushed and annihilated at the Mekong River by the Tay Son in the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút.
* Northern Scots – north of the Firth of Tay.
Tay – Sachs disease ( also known as GM2 gangliosidosis or hexosaminidase A deficiency ) is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder.
In its most common variant ( known as infantile Tay – Sachs disease ), it causes a progressive deterioration of mental and physical abilities that commences around six months of age and usually results in death by the age of four.
A ganglioside is a form of sphingolipid, which makes Tay – Sachs disease a member of the sphingolipidoses.
The disease is named after the British ophthalmologist Waren Tay, who in 1881 first described a symptomatic red spot on the retina of the eye, and after the American neurologist Bernard Sachs of Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, who described in 1887 the cellular changes of Tay – Sachs disease and noted an increased disease prevalence in the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jewish population.
Research in the late 20th century demonstrated that Tay – Sachs disease is caused by a genetic mutation in the HEXA gene on ( human ) chromosome 15.
Tay – Sachs disease is classified into several forms, which are differentiated based on the onset age of neurological symptoms.
* Infantile Tay – Sachs disease.
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Infants with Tay – Sachs disease appear to develop normally for the first six months after birth.
* Juvenile Tay – Sachs disease.
Juvenile Tay – Sachs disease is rarer than other forms of Tay – Sachs, and usually is initially seen in children between two and ten years old.
People with Tay – Sachs disease develop cognitive and motor skill deterioration, dysarthria, dysphagia, ataxia, and spasticity ; they typically die between five and fifteen years old.
* Adult / Late-Onset Tay – Sachs disease.
A rare form of this disease, known as Adult-Onset or Late-Onset Tay – Sachs disease, usually has its first symptoms during the 30s or 40s.
In contrast to the other forms, late-onset Tay – Sachs disease is usually not fatal as the effects can stop progressing.
People with late-onset Tay – Sachs frequently become full-time wheelchair users in adulthood.
Until the 1970s and 1980s, when the disease's molecular genetics became known, the juvenile and adult forms of the disease were not always recognized as variants of Tay – Sachs disease.
Post-infantile Tay – Sachs was often misdiagnosed as another neurological disorder, such as Friedreich's ataxia.
Tay – Sachs disease is inherited in the autosomal recessive pattern, depicted above.
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Crannogs have been variously interpreted as free-standing wooden structures, as at Loch Tay, although more commonly they exist as brush, stone or timber mounds which can be revetted with timber piles.
Patients with and carriers of Tay – Sachs can be identified by a simple blood test that measures hexosaminidase A activity.
In Orthodox Jewish circles, the organization Dor Yeshorim carries out an anonymous screening program so that couples with Tay – Sachs or another genetic disorder can avoid conception.
In 2011, researchers have discovered that Pyrimethamine can increase ß-hexosaminidase activity, thus slowing down the progression of Late-Onset Tay – Sachs disease.
Bremen sends Tay Trefenwyd to recover the Black Elfstone before the Warlock Lord can, and sends Risca to warn and aid the Dwarves from the army of the Warlock Lord.
The causes of many early railway accidents are often obscure, although they can sometimes be inferred from later research, such as the Versailles train crash of 1842 and the Tay Bridge disaster of 1879.
Bottlenosed dolphins are regular visitors to the Tay Estuary from March to September, and can be observed at very close quarters from Tayport harbour.
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Late onset forms occur due to the diverse mutation base – people with Tay – Sachs disease may technically be heterozygotes, with two differing HEXA mutations that both inactivate, alter, or inhibit enzyme activity.
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The earliest radiocarbon determinations obtained from key sites such as Oakbank in Loch Tay or Redcastle, Beauly Firth approach the Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age transition at their widest interpretation at 2 sigma or 95. 4 % probability, falling after c. 800BC and therefore could only be considered Late Bronze Age by the narrowest of margins.
The kingdom ruled by Kenneth's descendants — older works used the name House of Alpin to describe them but descent from Kenneth was the defining factor, Irish sources referring to Clann Cináeda meic Ailpín (" the Clan of Kenneth MacAlpin ") — lay to the south of the previously dominant kingdom of Fortriu, centred in the lands around the River Tay.
By 1854 he was able to demonstrate transmission across the Firth of Tay from Dundee to Woodhaven ( now part of Newport-on-Tay ), a distance of two miles ( three kilometers ).
Original Tay Bridge ( from the north ).
Original Tay Bridge ( from the south ) the day after the disaster.
Tay – Sachs results from mutations in the HEXA gene on human chromosome 15, which encodes the alpha-subunit of beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase A, a lysosomal enzyme.
Classic infantile Tay – Sachs disease results when a child has inherited mutations from both parents that completely stop the biodegradation of gangliosides.
Tay – Sachs disease ( along with AB-variant GM2-gangliosidosis and Sandhoff disease ) occurs because a mutation inherited from both parents deactivates or inhibits this process.
Waren Tay and Bernard Sachs, two physicians, described the disease's progression and provided differential diagnostic criteria to distinguish it from other neurological disorders with similar symptoms.
Perth's Pictish name, and some archaeological evidence, indicate that there must have been a settlement here from earlier times, probably at a point where a river crossing or crossings coincided with a slightly raised natural mound on the west bank of the Tay ( which at Perth flows north-south ), thus giving some protection for settlement from the frequent flooding.
Nearby Neolithic standing stones and circles followed the introduction of farming from about 4000 BC, and a remarkably well preserved Bronze age log boat dated to around 1000 BC was found in the mudflats of the River Tay at Carpow to the east of Perth.
After negotiating on Christmas Day 1549 at Stirling Castle for more French guns for the siege of Broughty Castle, she showed more prudence in February 1550 by watching the successful assault from across the Tay.
His father Lon Hin, was the son of a Khmer Krom from Tay Ninh Province who later served as a district chief in Siem Reap and Kampong Thom, after making a name for himself ' pacifying ' bandit groups in Prey Veng.
The Links O ' Tay Golf course, walking distance from the downtown core, began its trek through golfing history in 1890 and is now Canada's oldest continuously operating golf course.
Dundee from the Fife shore of the Firth of Tay
Original Tay Bridge from the north
Fallen Tay Bridge from the north
Original Tay Bridge from the northFallen Tay Bridge from the north
The Tay Road Bridge is a bridge across the Firth of Tay from Newport-on-Tay in Fife to Dundee in Scotland.
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