1.   FAMILIES with a history of both breast and ovarian cancer have the same inherited gene defect, scientists announced yesterday.

2.   About half of those cases occur in families as the result of an inherited gene.

3.   But embryonic stem cells could well be a better vehicle for gene insertion to correct inherited gene defects.

4.   Identical twins raised apart had remarkably similar IQs, which was attributed to inherited genes.

5.   Jack, the baby son of Ann and Albert Freedman, is dying of spinal muscular atrophy, a disease caused by an inherited gene.

6.   Without either inherited gene, a woman has a higher than average risk if a mother or sister has had breast cancer.

7.   This unique therapy was first developed to cure diseases caused by an inherited defective gene.