Quotes About Genetics

You would have to be born with a gene that doesn't allow you to recognize sarcasm if you take anything I say seriously.

A lot of my family are redheads, but I'm a dark blonde.

My younger brother's a redhead!

If your DNA profile puts you at a higher risk of developing obesity, that doesn't mean it's your fate. You can take control of the environmental side of the equation and reduce your overall lifetime risk by a lot.

Lifestyle changes may help reduce risk, but no study has shown that lifestyle changes alone can eliminate the risk of breast cancer, especially in those carrying the BRCA mutation.

The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology.

23andMe set out to try and change healthcare - this is not an easy business. This is not a coffee shop in Austin.

Smoking-related heart disease runs in my family. My grandfather and great-grandfather died in their early 40s.

I don't know where I got the height from; dad was only five-foot-seven and my brother's five-foot eight.

I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky.

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

Mom was 6-4, 235 herself.

Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.

DNA sequencing opens vast ethical issues. We shall be able to know who has defective genes. What will it mean when we can be sure we're not all born equal? Worked out, the implications will scare a lot of people. Insurance companies will not want to cover those with a genetic predisposition to illness, for example. Here lurk myriad lawsuits.

Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time.

Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.

In running, I know that I can train as much as I want and I'm never going to break the world record for the five miles. It's partly genetics; I'm just not built for it. But if I worked really hard, I might be able to cut my time by half. Could I do the same thing with my mind and my well-being?

Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

God has blessed me many times. I had some great genetics.

We've been tinkering with nature for tens of thousands of years - look at a poodle! So we've created all sorts of organisms and biological things that wouldn't be here were it not for us.

I've got more freckles than just about anybody. My children didn't get them, thankfully. They have tiny little freckles.

I haven't always been the best advocate for my own body. I was a too-tall, pudgy child who felt completely out of control of the genetic lottery ticket she'd been given, so in retaliation, I shut down. I ignored my body and hated it for not being tiny and cute like my friends' bodies.

I am really lucky with my skin. It comes from my mum. Fashion tip from Cherie: drink lots of water.

If we think of our chromosomes - they carry our genetic material - as being like shoelaces, I work on the plastic tips at the end that protect them.