Genetic Link Quotes

When you meet kin, there is an energy and sparkle between your bodies. It must be chemical somehow - DNA and genes.

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.

It's important to us to see the development and growth. At the end of the day, it's our baby. Genetically it's ours. It's our embryo. We feel very connected.

It can't hurt to go to the people you love, whose blood type courses through your veins and whose DNA, from a certain angle, contains many of the same markings as yours. You don't have to take their advice, but let them share their version of solutions to life's difficulties. Good or bad - it could be interesting.

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA.

And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything.

You can't choose who your brother is. You're born, and whoever is in your family is your family. That's your blood. That's the way it is.

Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.

A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia.

If there's a gene, I got it from my ma. Her writing has this effortless quality.

Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.

Everyone's pedigree merges into everyone else's pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related.

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

Just because somebody is blood-related doesn't make them family.

We need 10,000 genomes, not 100, to start to understand the link between genetics, disease and wellness.

Surrogacy used to be difficult, because the woman that was carrying the child was biologically related to the child. And sometimes you can still do it that way, but you do not have to do it that way anymore.

I ought to tell you that I'm probably your cousin.

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) runs in my family, as do other mental health problems.

Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk.

When you look at the science and the genetic studies that have been done on Palestinians and Jews, you find that there is a unity. They're both descended from the Canaanites. They're essentially the same people.