Chris Toumazou Quotes

Everybody is going to want to look at their genetics. You're going to want to get a genetic profile.

Every couple of weeks, someone writes in and says, '23andMe saved my life.'

Genetic testing in the future is going to be seen as critical as testing your cholesterol.

Being the first FDA-authorized direct-to-consumer genetic test out there is revolutionary.

My wife and I had been to the genetic counselor; my wife is not Jewish - she's the shiksha goddess type - and was negative for everything. But I was positive. I carried the gene for three genetic disorders, which, if she had been positive for, we would have passed down to the child.

I have had my genome fully sequenced and have learned a great deal about which medications I would respond to and which might or would induce major side effects, along with knowing many medical conditions for which I'm particularly susceptible.

DNA sequencing opens vast ethical issues. We shall be able to know who has defective genes. What will it mean when we can be sure we're not all born equal? Worked out, the implications will scare a lot of people. Insurance companies will not want to cover those with a genetic predisposition to illness, for example. Here lurk myriad lawsuits.

Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.

Knowing your genetic health risks will help you make better decisions.

Physicians should be genotyped.

Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

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A lot of genetic testing hasn't been integrated into healthcare because it has been expensive. I want to make people realise that they have the ability to be in charge of their own health.

I've come to the conclusion that you shouldn't have to see a genetic counselor. It should be a choice.

I unfortunately tested positive for Lynch Syndrome, so I have been checked at least annually and sometimes twice a year.

The involvement of clinicians, researchers, and, most importantly, the thousands of people who have donated DNA samples will help us to correlate genetic variation with individual variation in health and disease and help to deliver on the long-term promise of the Human Genome Project.

The goal of getting your genome done is not to tell you what you will die from, but it's how to learn how to take action to prevent disease.

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.

Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable.

Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness.

Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.

If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.

Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

I am an Ashkenazi Jew, and there are a whole host of genetic disorders that only Ashkenazi Jews have. I don't know if you know this, but 16 or 17 disorders that we carry the gene for.

The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them.