Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.

I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.

I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.

Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

[The tests agreed] that I was at higher risk than the average person for Type 2 diabetes, which is what my lab works on. In fact, some of the things they were testing for were variants that we had discovered.

When a drug comes out [that's broadly prescribed] there are going to start to be a lot of people on it [in a million person cohort] and you might get therefore an early signal of something unexpected that hadn't come through in the clinical trials. And I'm sure [drug companies] would love it if, in fact, FDA, recognizing that, would say, OK, maybe you don't have to do your trial with 30,000 people because we're going to find out shortly after registration because we'll have a lot of people taking the drug and we'll be able to see what happened using PMI.

By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.