Brides- and grooms-to-be: here’s one wedding gift that will provide you with the most precious thing of all, a healthy family. Anyone over the age of 16 can now receive FREE Jewish genetic disease screening from The Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto*. While most Jews have heard of Tay-Sachs disease, many are unaware that there are other genetic diseases that occur at a higher rate in people of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. The other diseases that may be included in the Ashkenazi Jewish panel (group of diseases) are Canavan disease, Niemann-Pick disease, Gaucher disease, Bloom syndrome, Fanconi anemia, Familial Dysautonomia, Mucolipidosis IV, and Glycogen Storage Disorder Type 1a. In addition, as Caucasians, Ashkenazi Jewish individuals are at risk to be carriers of Cystic fibrosis. The carrier rates for

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