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There have been lots of stories written about all the hype over getting the genome done and the letdown of not discovering lots of cures right after.

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If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.

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For each gene in your genome, you quite often get a different version of that gene from your father and a different version from your mother. We need to study these relationships across a very large number of people.

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Perfect pitch is genetic. It's 100% genetic.

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Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don't get breast cancer.

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Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.

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Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself.

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I am confident that life once thrived on Mars and may well still exist there today.

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The day is not far off when we will be able to send a robotically controlled genome-sequencing unit in a probe to other planets to read the DNA sequence of any alien microbe life that may be there.

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My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all.

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