Genetic Markers Quotes

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

My dog's name is Tucker, and his DNA is unidentifiable and suspect.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.

I had the analysis of a million or so SNPs [single nucleotide polymorphisms] just to see what was there. That's partly because I was writing a book about DNA and personalized medicine and I thought it would be a little bit disingenuous to talk about what could be done without actually having the experiment done on yourself.

People can take away your assets, but not your DNA.

Throughout my life, I've had consistent DNA.

People's genes can say a great deal about their health. There are genes that reveal an increased likelihood of getting cancer, heart disease or Alzheimer's.

I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low. 'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was something wrong with me - they showed you the test results that proved it. And even I started to believe it.' He touches my face, his thumb skimming my cheekbone, and his eyes are on mine, intense and insistent. 'You never believed it,' he says 'Not for a second. You always insisted I was... I don't know, whole.

From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

Some genetic variants can be informative about one's risk for Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

[The tests agreed] that I was at higher risk than the average person for Type 2 diabetes, which is what my lab works on. In fact, some of the things they were testing for were variants that we had discovered.

Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million generations ago. This is not long by evolutionary standards.

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

I've always been fascinated by what you can learn from looking into your DNA.

It turns out that viruses evolve from each other, like everything else. So if you look at the evolutionary tree of viruses, you can find parts of their genome that haven't changed over evolutionary time. You can recognize what may be a new virus by identifying this little piece of their genome that hasn't changed and is represented on the chip.