Wu Cheng-wen, president of the National Health Research Institute, says that one reason Taiwan can't afford not to be involved in work on the human genome, is the fact of the biological distinctions that exist among different races. "We need to establish a genetic database of our homeland if we are to better research the diseases that are unusually prevalent here, such as liver cancer and nasopharyngeal cancer."
國家衛生研究院院長吳成文也指出，我國在人類基因體定序工作中不能缺席，因為種族有生物差異，我們必須建立本土的基因體資料庫，才能進一步研究本土的好發疾病，如肝癌、鼻咽癌等等。