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I suppose if there's a set of genes I have, it's detesting authority.

It is important to democratize personal genetics and make it more accessible.

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

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 family is inclusive of not just your genetic family, but the people that you meet along the way.

Some, like Mother Teresa, are born with a gene to help the poor, and some are born with a gene to write. I was born with a gene to tell my story, and I just had to.

Everybody is going to want to look at their genetics. You're going to want to get a genetic profile.

Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.