DNA Quote: Marked
by Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei
Posted April 18, 2008 in DNA Quotes and Excerpts
Dr. Robert Green, professor of neurology, genetics and epidemiology at Boston University School of Medicine, in Genome scans go deep into your DNA by Anna Gosline:
Genetic information has a special power. It has a feel of fate about it, a sense of inevitability, that sense that, “Oh, you are marked.”
Image: People with DNA finger prints, Dan Salaman via Wellcome Images under Creative Commons
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Quote: “Oh, you are marked”
Huh, what does this mean? If it means what I think it means, we are not marked nor selected. We are just who we are. No marking about it all.
[...] professor of neurology, genetics and epidemiology at Boston University School of Medicine (hat tip: Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei): Genetic information has a special power. It has a feel of fate about it, a sense of [...]