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.

Incorporating genetics into a platform with the reach of ResearchKit will accelerate insights into illness and disease even further.

Our understanding of how DNA informs our health and development is advancing at an incredible pace.

I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction. It's a new technology, and it's new science that people are becoming familiar with. It's critical for us to do everything we can to enable the privacy level that people want.

I don't come from a family of artists.

My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbilly music part of it, and all that music came over from Scotland and Ireland and England in to the Appalachian Mountains and Ozark Mountains, where I was raised.

Most of the things in your life are not in your control - the family you are born into, the parents, and the siblings you have. It is only friendship and love that you create for yourself in this lifetime.

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.