Tay syndrome

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Tay syndrome is a recessive hereditary disease characterised by trichothiodystrophy (sulfur-deficient brittle hair) with photosensitivity, ichthyosiform erythroderma (fish-like scales on skin), dystrophic (abnormal) finger and toe-nails, progeria-like faces (prematurely aged looking face), growth and mental retardation, infertility and variable other defects.It is named after Dr. Tay Chong Hai, a Singaporean doctor who discovered and subsequently published a paper on it in 1971. Dr. Tay is the first doctor in South East Asia to be honoured by having a disease named after him. The Tay syndrome should not be confused with the Tay-Sachs disease.Tay syndrome is synonymous with:
  • IBIDS (ichthyosis-brittle hair-impaired intelligence-decreased fertility-short stature) syndrome
  • congenital ichthyosis-trichodystrophy syndrome
  • ichthyosiform erythroderma-hair abnormality-mental and growth retardation syndrome
  • PIBI(D)S hair-impaired intelligence-(possibly decreased fertility)-short stature syndrome
  • sulfur-deficient brittle hair syndrome
  • trichothiodystrophy 2 (TTD 2)
  • trichothiodystrophy-congenital ichthyosis syndrome
  • trichothiodystrophy-xeroderma pigmentosum syndrome


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