DNA Quote: Dr. Scott Zeger

by Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei
Posted September 7, 2007 in DNA Quotes and Excerpts

Today another quote from the Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine feature, The Genetic Journey. Dr. Scott Zeger was one of my biostatistics professors and he had this to say about DNA :

Biology has gone from being a study of organisms and their components to being an information science. What is DNA? It’s an information code. But more information does not mean more knowledge. More knowledge comes from very careful and clever analysis of information. We need to get better at this. We need better tools for acquiring information, managing it and asking questions of it. Needles are hard to find in a haystack unless you have a metal detector. That’s what we need now.

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Comment by Steven Murphy MD

2007-09-07 16:54:55

Exactly!!!! But I think the tools need to collect the RIGHT information. There are some EMRs out there that don’t even allow you to indicate what lineage relatives come from…….
-Steve
http://www.thegenesherpa.blogspot.com

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Comment by Hsien

2007-09-07 18:48:15

Perhaps we can empower patients to collect their own genetic data on a system that’s designed for both patients and healthcare professionals.

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