All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.

What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?

Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.

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

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

What does it take to get people interested, what does it take to get people engaged, what does it take to get them to give a biospecimen? What does it take to get people like Jim [Ostell] to get interested and engaged, versus someone like my mother?

A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.