Eric Lander Quotes

About 99 percent of genes in humans have counterparts in the mouse. Eighty percent have identical, one-to-one counterparts.

- Eric Lander

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This is telling us about those changes that make us human. - Eric Lander

I think it means that we'll be able to track down the actual causes of disease... What most folks don't realize we don't know the cause of asthma, of heart disease, of diabetes or hypertension. - Eric Lander

We're not going to stand up and say that these 14 things make us human... But it's not trivial to be able to say, 'Here is an inventory of the most important differences, and now go at it and figure out which of these differences contain the signatures of what is distinctively human.' - Eric Lander