But scattered throughout that DNA are 20, 000 genes, the recipe books that tell the body how to make proteins such as insulin, muscle, hemoglobin, brain tissue, bone, clotting factor--virtually everything in our bodies.
Junior health minister Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, in a written Parliamentary reply, said there was no centrally held information on the number of haemophiliacs who received clottingfactor made from plasma donated by the donor.