41.   Two of the drugs are designed to treat Fabry disease, a rare inherited disease.

42.   While scientists have high hopes that gene therapy might extend the lives of people with the lethal inherited disease cystic fibrosis, early experiments have had disappointing results.

43.   Consider the inherited metabolic diseases, which have such tongue-twisting names that many go by acronyms like VLCAD and MCAD.

44.   Cystic fibrosis is the most common fatal inherited disease of Americans.

45.   Cystic fibrosis is the most common inherited disease among Caucasians.

46.   Edward Birkenmeier, who is doing similar research on inherited diseases in mice at the Jackson Laboratory, said the future for gene therapy remains unclear.

47.   Familial adenomatous polyposis, or FAP, is an insidious inherited disease that causes hundreds of polyps to carpet the large intestine and rectum as early as adolescence.

48.   For the first time, doctors can predict, decades in advance, who will get cancer and some other inherited diseases and who will not.

49.   Sickle cell anemia, an inherited disease in which the red blood cells take on the shape of a sickle, is relatively common in Grenada.

50.   Sickle cell anemia is an inherited disease most common among people whose ancestors came from Africa, the Middle East, the Mediterranean and India.