I first heard about 'genes' when I was six years old. At dinner one night, I heard my mom tell my sister, 'It's in your genes.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.
My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.
I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.
I guess I'm just lucky with my genes.
Knowing what your parents have gives you hints of things, but your genome is a totally unique combination of and interchange of DNA from your parents. There is no one else like you genetically.
I spent 10 years trying to find one gene.
Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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.
The idea that you're made up of the people that come before you and you somehow have some kind of conscious dialog with your genetics - I think it's really deep and interesting stuff.
Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'