Genes and disease provides short descriptions of inherited disorders. It is hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a division of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Tangier Disease by Jackie Newman Tangier Disease is an extremely rare autosomal recessive metabolic disorder. Documentation shows that as of 1988, 27 cases of Tangier Disease had been reported (Makrides pg.465) and in 1992 the reported cases were still fewer than 50 persons worldwide (Thoene pg.265). The majority of the cases tend to localize in one single area of the U.S., Tangier Island, ...