31.   The law also requires abortion of fetuses found to be carrying hereditary diseases or suffering from severe abnormalities.

32.   The veterans claim their exposure led them and their families to suffer from various forms of cancer and hereditary diseases.

33.   DMD is a hereditary genetic disease affecting boys and which is caused by the absence of dystrophin, a muscle protein.

34.   The research team then extended the technique to deciding if the embryo carried a defective gene causing a hereditary disease.

35.   The techique could help infertile men father children and possibly be used to eliminate hereditary diseases.

36.   US scientists have created the first artificial human chomosomes, opening the door to potential treatment of hereditary diseases, The Washington Post said Tuesday.

37.   Moreover there have been no instances of hereditary diseases detected among children born after the blast.