DNA Quote: Marked

DNA Quote: Marked

by Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei
Posted April 18, 2008 in DNA Quotes and Excerpts

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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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2 Comments

Comment by NA

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 [...]

 

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