Robert Winston Quotes

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

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my genes because I can't do anything about them.

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

Epigenetics doesn't change the genetic code, it changes how that's read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won't be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure.

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.

Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

There are many ways in which genes influence the brain.

In college, I had an early introduction to classical genetics from Professor Dan Lindsley, also an extraordinary teacher who influenced me greatly.

… the policy of genes

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn.

One of the things that got me interested in genetics was the relationship between genes and environment. We are all dealt a certain deck of cards, but our environment can influence the outcomes.

Knowing that changing lifestyle changes our genes is often very motivating - not to blame, but to empower.

Your genetics is not your destiny.

A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.

I think we all have a slightly gay gene inside us, don't we? It might be 0.00001 per cent as mine is, or one per cent as yours is.

Those traits that pass into hybrid association entirely or almost entirely unchanged, thus themselves representing the traits of the hybrid, are termed dominating and those that become latent in the association, recessive.

I spent 10 years trying to find one gene.

It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions.

No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves.

A person's health isn't generally a reflection of genes, but how their environment is influencing them. Genes are the direct cause of less than 1pc of diseases: 99pc is how we respond to the world.

Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

Our understanding of how DNA informs our health and development is advancing at an incredible pace.

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.'