On February 4th the court martial began of Sergeant-Major Gene McKinney, once the army's highest-ranking enlisted soldier.

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Usually with a complex disease there are so many genes with a small contribution, but this is a major gene.

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Major Gene McKinney of harassment, was a star soldier herself.

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The work is significant because it goes a long way towards proving that the concept of gene-targeted therapy can work in major common tumors.

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The field then suffered a major setback when an Arizona teenager died in a gene therapy experiment in 1999 and two French boys with SCID developed leukemia in 2002.

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In the long term gene-based tests could enhance treatment of most major diseases, including asthma, arthritis and even schizophrenia.

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The existence of a drug that prevents tumors from forming is a major incentive for women to find out if they have such a gene.

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The idea suffered major setbacks in 1999 when a U.S. teenager died in a gene-therapy trial and again soon after when several children in Europe developed leukemia after receiving gene therapy.

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One notorious example came when just about every major drug company in the mid-1990s rushed to develop drugs to block a cancer-causing gene called ras.

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If this were a gene therapy trial or a stem cell therapy trial, the results would be heralded as a major breakthrough, benefiting all mankind.

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