Animal Quote by Kari Stefansson

“Yet the ailment is virtually nonexistent in Iceland. There is a higher prevalence of the disorder in the northeastern United States than in Iceland.…

— Eric Weiner

“Icelanders are among the most inbred human beings on earth—geneticists often use them for research.”

— Michael Lewis

First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

— Daniel Nathans

All of our health is basically genetics.

— Frank Langella

“After a handful of geeks sequenced the Neanderthal genome and found a 2% match, they opened the flood gates to hundreds of geneticists that…

— Bill Gaede

“Humanity shares a common ancestry with all living things on Earth. We often share especially close intimacies with the microbial world. In fact, only…

— Brenda Wilmoth Lerner

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The…

— Jared Diamond

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

— Quentin Crisp

Everyone has something ancestral, even if it is nothing more than a disease

— Edgar Watson Howe

And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.

— Daniel Nathans

Human beings are just gene machines.

— Richard Dawkins

We are all predisposed to disease if we mismanage our genes.

— Mark Sisson