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Special Report Wednesday 12th July 2006

DNA.


Listen to Glenda Cooper's report.






Until this week if you wanted to find out if a child was really yours, you could send a couple of hairs and a mouth swab off to a laboratory in secret with no one the wiser.

From the 1 September 2006 the law is changing. DNA theft is becoming a criminal offence and anyone who takes someone's genetic information without telling them could face a prison sentence.

Glenda Cooper finds out more.

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