Anne Wojcicki Quotes

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

We all want our genetic information. Why would you not want genetic information?

What I really wanted was for everybody to have their genome and, ideally, everybody to share their genome, and for that, we needed to bring the price way down.

Like the early days of the Internet, the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls that no one can foresee.

The Human Genome Project has given us a genetic parts list.

Your genome isn't really secret.

I didn't want my genome to be sequenced by any of the companies that were out there doing the partial sequences just from the point of view of commercialisation.

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

It is important to democratize personal genetics and make it more accessible.

Patenting tends to get people's juices flowing when you put the word 'gene' and the word 'patent' in the same sentence. And understandably so. This is stuff we're carrying around - all of us - inside all of our cells. Should somebody be able to lay claim to it?

Just as we have addressed discrimination based on race, gender, and age, we must now prevent discrimination based on genetic information.

The Human Genome Project alone is the Full Employment Act for bioethicists.

Incorporating genetics into a platform with the reach of ResearchKit will accelerate insights into illness and disease even further.

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn. One of the things we try to do is educate individuals that knowing information is empowering.

We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.

I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.

How we understand our own selves and how we work with our DNA software has implications that will affect everything from vaccine development to new approaches to antibiotics, new sources of food, new sources of chemicals, even potentially new sources of energy.

Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.

Why should I need a prescription to spit into a vial and get my DNA read? Why can't I get my own blood drawn without a doctor's permission? It's my blood.

There's massive government initiatives going around the world, and you see that there's a real enthusiasm for genetics.

Physicians should be genotyped.

As a Christian, but also as a scientist responsible for overseeing the Human Genome Project, one of my concerns has been the limits on applications of our understanding of the genome. Should there be limits? I think there should. I think the public has expressed their concern about ways this information might be misused.

A cardinal principle that we must not stray from - no exceptions - is that your genetic information is your business in terms of who sees it. Nobody should be gaining access to that information without your explicit permission, and nobody should be requiring you to take a genetic test unless you decide that that's what you want to do.

I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.

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