About the JGDC

The Jewish Genetic Disease Consortium (JGDC) increases awareness and education about Jewish Genetic Diseases (JGDs) and encourages timely and complete genetic screening for all Jews.

The JGDC is comprised of several not-for-profit organizations sharing a common goal of combating Jewish genetic diseases. While each JGDC member organization has its own individual mission and tends to focus on a single genetic disease, the JGDC unites these organizations so that we may jointly strengthen public education and awareness and urge complete genetic screening for all 19 Jewish genetic diseases that occur most frequently in the Ashkenazi Jewish population, most often afflicting children, sometimes fatally.

In Development: Jews of Sephardic (Mediterranean) and Mizrahi (Persian and Middle Eastern) Jewish heritage

Through its Medical Grand Rounds Program, Rabbi Education Program, and Jewish Community Program, the JGDC strives to inform and impact physicians, rabbis and Jews of all disciplines about JGDs so that genetic screening and the many reproductive options can significantly prevent the incidence of Jewish Genetic disease and lead to healthier Jewish families.

 

Jewish Genetic Diseases

  • Bloom’s syndrome
  • Canavan disease
  • Cystic Fibrosis (CF)
  • Familial Dysautonomia (FD)
  • Familial Hyperinsulinism
  • Fanconi Anemia Type C
  • Gaucher disease Type 1
  • Glycogen Storage disorder Type 1a (GSD 1a)
  • Joubert Syndrome Type 2
  • Lipoamide Dehydrogenase deficiency (E3)
  • Maple Syrup Urine disease (MSUD)
  • Mucolipidosis type IV (ML IV)
  • Nemaline Myopathy
  • Niemann-Pick disease type A
  • Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
  • Tay-Sachs disease
  • Usher syndrome Type I
  • Usher syndrome Type III
  • Walker Warburg Syndrome