Health: Brittle Bone Society

Lord Colwyn Excerpts

Monday 6th June 2011 Lords Chamber

[Earl Howe]

My noble friend is absolutely right. As he knows, the UK is one of the pioneers of genetic research; it takes a lead role in the international human genome project and its application to medicine. The human genome project has sequenced the 25,000 or so genes that make us human and research is now looking at how groups of genes interact not only with each other but with environmental factors to cause disease. We remain absolutely committed to genetics research and aim to make the UK the best place in the world for that research to continue. If there are proposals relating to this specific condition, my department will be very pleased to receive them.

[Lord Colwyn]

My Lords, would my noble friend also pass his invitation to researchers in dentinogenesis imperfecta?

[Earl Howe]

My Lords, I shall need a small tutorial from my noble friend on that condition, which is not mentioned in my brief, I fear.