Dor Yeshorim also called Committee for Prevention of Genetic Diseases, is an organization that offers genetic screening to members of the worldwide Jewish community. Its objective is to minimize, and eventually eliminate, the incidence of genetic disorder

Genetic disorder

A genetic disorder is an illness caused by abnormalities in genes or chromosomes, especially a condition that is present from before birth. Most genetic disorders are quite rare and affect one person in every several thousands or millions....

s common to Jewish people, such as Tay-Sachs disease

Tay-Sachs disease

Tay–Sachs disease is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder...

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Dor Yeshorim is based in Brooklyn, New York, but has offices in Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 and various other countries.