GeneHealth: everyday health DNA test.Gettoknowyoureverydaytraits.
One saliva sample, genotyped for selected variants studied in everyday health and wellbeing. A plain report of the traits you carry and what research associates with each.
One-time payment. Self-pay only. We don’t bill insurance for this test.
The first year of GeneMatrix+ is included when you turn on automatic renewal at checkout.After that it’s $99 a year until you cancel. Renewal is charged to your payment method each year. Leave automatic renewal off and you get the test alone, without a GeneMatrix+ year. Cancel anytime online, or by writing to info@genematrix.io. Your reports stay yours.
For general wellness and information, not diagnosis.
Genotyped in our own CLIA-certified lab (New York orders excepted)
Your genetic data is never sold, and never shared for marketing or research
Reports are yours to keep
Full refund within 30 days of ordering, as long as your results haven’t been delivered.
In everyday life
Onereport,fortheeveryday.
The traits you inherit don’t change, so this is a report to keep and come back to whenever a habit or a routine is on your mind. What is known about a trait can change over time.
Your report, in everyday life
When you plan your meals
When you start a new routine
When you talk it through with a dietitian or coach
Whenever you are curious again
What you’ll learn
Whatyou’llknowaboutyourtraits.
Wellness traits and the associations studied for them, for general information.
The traits you carry
Which of the everyday wellbeing traits on this panel you carry, one line each.
What each is linked to
What population studies associate with each trait, in plain words, as a tendency across groups.
Something to talk through
Traits you may want to talk through with a dietitian, coach or clinician, if you like.
Yours to come back to
Your genes don’t change, so the report is yours to keep and come back to.
What your report covers
Traitbytrait,inplainwords.
What the GeneHealth report sets out. For each trait: your result, and what research has linked it to.
FolateGenes studied in how the body processes folate, the B vitamin in leafy greens and beans.Reads MTHFR C677T: how your body processes folate. The MTHFR mutation test, explained
Vitamin B12Genes studied in vitamin B12 levels in the blood.
Vitamin DGenes studied in vitamin D levels, and in how vitamin D is carried in the blood.
Vitamin A from plant foodsA gene studied in how the body turns beta-carotene, from carrots and greens, into vitamin A.
Vitamins B2, B6 and cholineGenes studied in how the body uses riboflavin, vitamin B6 and choline.
Vitamin CA gene studied in how the body handles vitamin C.
Omega-3 and omega-6 fatsA gene region studied in blood levels of omega-3 and omega-6 fats.
Antioxidant defencesGenes for the antioxidant enzymes your body makes for itself.
LactoseThe variant linked to digesting milk sugar into adulthood.
CaffeineA gene linked to how quickly the body clears caffeine.
Bitter tasteA taste-receptor gene linked to how strongly some bitter flavours register.
Each line says what a trait has been studied in, across groups of people. For general wellness and information, not diagnosis.
Your report
Thetrait,yourresult,andwhatit’slinkedto.
Each trait is set out in one line: the trait, your result and what research associates with it. The associations come from population studies, so they describe tendencies across groups, not what will happen to you.
Associated with typical folate processing across groups studied. It is not a blood test.
Vitamin D
Less common form
Associated with differences in blood vitamin D across groups studied. It is not a blood test.
Bitter taste
Stronger
Associated with tasting some bitter flavours more strongly.
The associations come from population studies and describe tendencies across groups, not how any one person responds. Our nutrition, supplement, athletic and wellbeing reports are for general wellness and information. The evidence behind these associations is less established than for our clinical panels, and these reports are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Ways to buy
ChoosehowtogetGeneHealth.
GeneHealth on its own, or GeneCore with diet, fitness and health traits in one report. Each is one self-pay price, paid once when you order. Results are usually ready 5 to 7 business days after the lab receives your activated sample (10 to 14 business days during holiday weeks).
GeneHealth
$199, one-time$199
One-time payment
Saliva, from a gentle swab along your gums at home
The first year of GeneMatrix+ is included when you turn on automatic renewal at checkout.After that it’s $99 a year until you cancel. Renewal is charged to your payment method each year. Leave automatic renewal off and you get the test alone, without a GeneMatrix+ year. Cancel anytime online, or by writing to info@genematrix.io. Your reports stay yours.
GeneCore
$499, one-time, for diet, fitness and health traits in one report$499
One-time payment
Diet, fitness and health traits in one report
GeneCore includes this area plus the other two
Diet, fitness and health traits, side by side in one report
Saliva, from a gentle swab along your gums at home
The first year of GeneMatrix+ is included when you turn on automatic renewal at checkout.After that it’s $99 a year until you cancel. Renewal is charged to your payment method each year. Leave automatic renewal off and you get the test alone, without a GeneMatrix+ year. Cancel anytime online, or by writing to info@genematrix.io. Your reports stay yours.
The guaranteeFull refund within 30 days of ordering, as long as your results haven’t been delivered. Once your results are delivered, the guarantee no longer applies.
Your dataWe never sell your genetic data, and we never share it for marketing or research. It goes only to those who complete your order: the laboratory that runs your tests; for an order shipped to New York, the physician or reference laboratory that completes it; and service providers under contract that store your data or prepare your report for us, including Labrynix and SignalPGx, the laboratory-information and reporting software we use. That holds while GeneMatrix+ is active and after it ends.
Cancel anytimeCancel anytime online, or by writing to info@genematrix.io. Your reports stay yours; re-reads stop when GeneMatrix+ ends.
Wellness traits and the associations studied for them, for general information. Its report sets out traits such as folate, vitamin B12 and vitamin D, each with what it has been studied in.
For general wellness and information, not diagnosis.
What can’t GeneHealth tell you?
It can’t diagnose a condition or measure your current levels, and it doesn’t promise any change in your health. The associations come from population studies. They describe tendencies across groups, not how any one person responds.
For general wellness and information, not diagnosis.
Who it’s for
Madeforthecurious.Notamedicaltest.
It’s for you if
You are curious about the traits you inherited, and want them set out plainly in one report.
You like to understand your traits before you change a habit or a routine.
You want a single wellness report now, and may add others later.
It isn’t for
It is not a medical test, and it is not a diagnosis. If you have a health concern or symptoms, see your clinician.
It does not measure your current levels of anything, and it is not a plan to follow.
It does not tell you how your health will turn out. Traits describe tendencies studied across groups of people.
Illustrative image, not our laboratory.
Our lab
Alabweown.InChicago.
GeneMatrix runs its own CLIA-certified laboratory in Chicago, and every order is tested there except those shipped to New York. These are the people and credentials behind your results.
Order online and the kit comes by mail, straight from the lab, with the swab, its tube and everything you need to use it.
02Collect at home
Wait 30 minutes after eating or drinking, then rub the soft swab along your lower gums, 10 times on each side. Seal it in its tube and send it back as the kit explains.
03Genotyped in our lab
Your saliva sample is genotyped in our own CLIA-certified lab in Chicago.
Orders shipped to New York are completed through a physician order or a reference laboratory permitted in New York.
04Your report
When your results are ready we email you (the email never names your test) with the lab’s secure link to your report, which asks for the tested person’s details before it opens. It is in plain words, to read in your own time.
What’s in your kit
The swab and its tubeA soft sponge swab on a cap, and a tube with a little liquid that keeps your sample stable in the post.
Step-by-step instructionsPrinted, in plain words, from the wait before you start to the post box.
An activation cardYour kit ID, with a QR code and a barcode. Scan it to activate your kit before you mail it.
A specimen bagA sealable bag with an absorbent pad inside, which the postal rules ask for.
A sealA sticker across the box flap, so it arrives as you closed it.
A prepaid return boxThe return box and a prepaid USPS return label. Postage is paid.
It varies from trait to trait. Wellness associations are less established than the findings on our clinical panels, which is why these reports are for general wellness and information.
02.How is GeneHealth different from GeneCore?+
GeneHealth keeps its report on everyday wellbeing traits. GeneCore includes the same health area plus diet and fitness, all in one report.
03.Will it tell me what to change?+
No. It describes the traits you carry and what research associates with them. What you do with that is yours to decide, with a dietitian, coach or clinician if you like.
04.Do you sell my genetic data, or share it for marketing or research?+
No. We never sell your genetic data, and we never share it for marketing or research. It goes only to those who complete your order: the laboratory that runs your tests; for an order shipped to New York, the physician or reference laboratory that completes it; and service providers under contract that store your data or prepare your report for us, including Labrynix and SignalPGx, the laboratory-information and reporting software we use.
05.Do I need a doctor’s order?+
You can order online; self-pay orders don’t need a doctor’s order. Orders shipped to New York are completed through a physician order or a reference laboratory permitted in New York.
One-time payment. Self-pay only. We don’t bill insurance for this test. For general wellness and information, not diagnosis.
Limits
Whatyourtraitscan’ttellyou.
Your saliva sample is genotyped in our own CLIA-certified lab in Chicago (New York orders excepted). Genotyping reads selected positions in the genes on this panel; it does not read every position in those genes, or your whole genome.
01The associations come from population studies. They describe tendencies across groups, not how any one person responds.
02The panel reads selected positions in the genes it lists. A variant at a position it does not read, or in a gene that is not on the panel, will not be found.
03It reads traits you were born with. It does not measure your current levels, and it does not promise any change in your health.
04The report reflects what was known when it was written, and that can change. With GeneMatrix+, your reports are re-read automatically whenever the evidence from our sources is updated.
Please read
LabOur genetic tests are laboratory-developed tests performed in our own CLIA-certified laboratory. New York is the exception: orders shipped there are completed through a physician order or a reference laboratory permitted in New York. Our genetic tests have not been cleared or approved by the FDA. Results describe inherited traits and risks and are meant to inform decisions you make with your clinician. They are not a diagnosis.
WellnessOur nutrition, supplement, athletic and wellbeing reports are for general wellness and information. The evidence behind these associations is less established than for our clinical panels, and these reports are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Who writes our guides, where their facts come from and how to ask for a correction: our editorial policy.
One-time payment. Self-pay only. We don’t bill insurance for this test.
The first year of GeneMatrix+ is included when you turn on automatic renewal at checkout.After that it’s $99 a year until you cancel. Renewal is charged to your payment method each year. Leave automatic renewal off and you get the test alone, without a GeneMatrix+ year. Cancel anytime online, or by writing to info@genematrix.io. Your reports stay yours.
For general wellness and information, not diagnosis.
