We have insight into the genome of all Icelanders today, and one of the big questions is, 'How can society take advantage of it?' There are some obstacles that society has to get over before it will use it. Kari Stefansson More Quotes by Kari Stefansson More Quotes From Kari Stefansson We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes. Kari Stefansson medicine drug animal When you begin to look at genetics, when you begin to think about life in general, it turns out all life on Earth is rooted in DNA, there is no life on Earth that is not based on information that lies in this miraculous macromolecule that we call DNA. Kari Stefansson health-news Human genetics is the study of human diversity, and what you are trying to do is to figure out how information lies in the genome that has an impact on human diversity. And having, for example, the genealogy gives you the avenue by which this information is passed from one generation to the next. Kari Stefansson health-news We can, at the push of a button, find encrypted ID of all these carriers, if society would want to use this, they could find these women, they could approach them, and they could mitigate most of this risk. Kari Stefansson health-news It has always been considered a virtue in our culture to know as much about yourself as possible, i don't think that there is any exception for genetics. We just want to know who we are. Kari Stefansson health-news We claim that we can sequence the whole genomes for very large numbers of people. Kari Stefansson health-news
