Anne Wojcicki Quotes

One of the things about genetics that has become clearer as we've done genomes - as we've worked our way through the evolutionary tree, including humans - is that we're probably much more genetic animals than we want to confess we are.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene.

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

Genes are not about inevitabilities; they're about potentials and vulnerabilities.

The nice thing about genetics is, I can see my kids doing what I used to do, which is inhaling books like breathing.

I've got some genetic gifts.

I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.

Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.

Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.

Genes are not destiny!

Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are.

I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.

I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.

I have to say that my dad's face is very malleable. He's barely got any cartilage in his face. I think I maybe inherited that Play-Doh-like physicality from him.

First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes.

Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.

Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate.

A mutation can create an alternative form of a phenomenon - a phenotype or trait - and we can learn a lot by seeing this alternative state. Once I saw a mouse with no eyelids. It simply had a membrane over the eyes. I found it fascinating that there is a single gene required for eyelids to develop.

I first heard about 'genes' when I was six years old. At dinner one night, I heard my mom tell my sister, 'It's in your genes.'