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Once a week, I might stay late at work. It's sometimes very efficient to work until 7 P.M. - and then come home to kids who are clean and ready for bed. Those days are good.
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I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn.
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There's a whole group of people who are 100-plus and have no disease. Why?
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My divorce wasn't fun.
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Incorporating genetics into a platform with the reach of ResearchKit will accelerate insights into illness and disease even further.
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Being the first FDA-authorized direct-to-consumer genetic test out there is revolutionary.
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If we can actually decrease the failure rate from nine out of 10 drugs failing in clinical trials and instead have seven out of 10 instead failing, that is a major victory for drug discovery and for people having better therapy.
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Big data is going to make us all healthier.
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23andme is very independent and committed to focusing on transparency.
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One of the things is, I don't read my own press. I never watch myself.
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Employment and health insurance are now protected by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
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Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm of human endeavor from education to transportation to medicine, genetics will undoubtedly benefit people everywhere in ways we can't even imagine but know will surely occur.
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In Silicon Valley, you want things done instantly.
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I think that for people who are trying to make a difference, you have to start the company being naive. You wouldn't do it if you understood all the work. I work a lot. I wish it was easier.
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I have an unreasonably optimistic view of the world.
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I think the biggest problem in clinical trials is that they are underpowered. And that fundamentally, the studies are just too small.
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I'm at a slightly higher risk for type 2 diabetes, and my grandmother had diabetes. My hemoglobin a1c, which is one of the measures, started being a little high when I was drinking a ton of that coconut water.
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My sister learned she was a carrier for a recessive disease, Bloom syndrome, late in one of her pregnancies. I remember the panicked call and the weeks of worry as she and her husband awaited his test results; if he was also a carrier, this meant their daughter had a one in four chance of being born with the disorder.
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I guess I'm just fiercely independent.
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I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction.
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Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.
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My family and I were some of the first people to be genotyped.
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We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.
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I have deep respect for Rep. Jackie Speier and all that she has done to open doors for women everywhere.
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