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by tasha0663 1584 days ago
Yeah, that's weird. Either the association is so strong with some people that they can't see Tay-Sachs without immediately thinking Ashkenazi, or there was a stealth edit to the comment.
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No stealth edit!

Genetic testing can identify carriers, so if Tay-Sachs has been (mostly) 'vanquished' from the Ashkenazi community, it can be 'vanquished' completely.

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/18/science/using-genetic-tes...