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Last Updated: Tuesday, 24 June, 2003, 05:14 GMT 06:14 UK
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The BBC's Glenda Cooper
"We will discover what disease we are likely to develop later on in life"


Professor John Burn, Institute of Human Genetics:



The BBC's Lucy Atherton
"[It] has the potential to predict what diseases we are likely to develop"


Paul Delsinger, father of cystic fibrosis sufferer




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Prime Minister Tony Blair
"It will make an enormous difference to the way we deliver health care"


The BBC's Lucy Atherton
"Restrictions are likely to be placed on over the counter testing kits"


father of gene therapy participant, Paul Gelsigner
"Everything has to be in the open and ethically reviewed"


The BBC's Gill Higgins
"It is vital the government also looks at genes and the law"


parent of a cystic fibrosis child Joanne Hilditch
"It [gene therapy] is the only hope you really have"



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