American - Scientist | July 28, 1973 -
You can get so much value just from being genotyped.
Anne Wojcicki
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The goal of having more and more information is really to better be able to predict what is your health outcome going to be.
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There's nothing more raw in life than when you're sick.
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My family and I were some of the first people to be genotyped.
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People are used to dealing with risk.
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You are not just about death and disease.
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Most medications don't work effectively for a lot people.
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The pharma industry is one of the few industries that comes up every year and brags about how much worse they got - like, now it costs $2 billion to make a drug, and it was a billion 5 years ago.
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There's a beauty in being unrealistic.
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I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.
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I have mothers with small children come to me and say, 'You found that I had early breast cancer - because of you, I don't have cancer.' You've just prevented that person from dying early, and to prevent an early, unnecessary death is incredibly meaningful.
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It's interesting: I think, genetically, there are people who need different things, like exercise. I need the exercise, others not so much, and I think more and more, we'll start to understand why people's bodies function in certain ways.
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