What do Starter and Advanced include, and what do they exclude?

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They include: 

  • Personal traits: physical and physiological characteristics. 
  • Wellness: nutrition, sports performance and sleep. 
  • Ancestry: 93 reference populations, maternal and paternal haplogroups (paternal haplogroups for males only) and your percentage of Neanderthal DNA. 
  • Advanced only: genetic susceptibility to health conditions, carrier status for hereditary conditions and pharmacogenetics. 

They do not include: 

  • Investigating a specific disease because of a clinical suspicion or family history. This requires a diagnostic test requested by your doctor. 
  • Whole-gene deletions or duplications, chromosomal rearrangements, translocations or mosaicism. 
  • Trisomies and other changes in chromosome number, such as trisomy 21 (Down's syndrome). 
  • Every possible variant in a gene: the chip analyses selected positions, not the complete sequence.