Genetic Disorder Quotes

I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your whole life without really knowing that something's wrong. I had high blood pressure, and that was the first sign.

Reich Committee for the Registration of Serious Hereditary and Congenital Illnesses

All genetically defective Germans shall be rendered infertile. (Sterilized)

My mother is part albino." Bella Swan

The genome could be thought of as a kind of piano with twenty-five thousand keys. In some cases, a few keys may be out of tune, which can cause the music to sound wrong. In others, if one key goes dead the music turns into a cacophony, or the whole piano self-destructs.

Prevent the procreation of persons socially inadequate from defective inheritance, by authorizing and providing for eugenical sterilization of certain potential parents carrying degenerate hereditary qualities.

I have two children of my own; I can't imagine anything more horrific than to have a child suffering with EB.

Homosexuality is a genetic flaw.

Turns out, Down syndrome is the most common genetic disorder, occurring once in every 800 births, and no one really knows why it happens. It just does.

I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring

For those that don't know, my sister was born with Down Syndrome, and she was institutionalized in the very early sixties. Me, being just a small boy and being shuffled around between my mother and grandparents, I never knew her.

My sister learned she was a carrier for a recessive disease, Bloom syndrome, late in one of her pregnancies. I remember the panicked call and the weeks of worry as she and her husband awaited his test results; if he was also a carrier, this meant their daughter had a one in four chance of being born with the disorder.

My mom is part albino.

Patients would come in and say, Well, my baby is going to have a cleft palate. I'm going like, that's not a reason. And the doctor would do the abortion.

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

I have this thing called hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. It's incredibly rare.

My genetic makeup is a little bit crazy.

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

There is probably a promising drug candidate that has already been discovered for the treatment of Down syndrome that is sitting on the shelf of some drug company.

I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.

My niece was born with cystic fibrosis 15 years ago, and she's incredibly healthy and an incredible competitive dancer, so I'm going to do some events for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

The name of my condition is Cartilage Hair Syndrome Hypoplasia, but you can just call me Billy.

In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.

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