GeneSport: sports and fitness DNA test.Knowthegenesyoutrainwith.
One saliva sample, genotyped for selected variants studied in training response, recovery and injury. A plain report of what you carry and what the research says about it. Read it on your own or with your coach.
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.
Your training log
Whatyoulogalready,plusoneline.
Sessions, sleep, food and rest already shape how you perform and recover. GeneSport adds one line: selected variants studied in training response, recovery and injury. It sits with the rest, not above it.
Training
Sleep
Nutrition
Rest
Your genetic traitsWhat GeneSport adds
The list is in no order, and none of it is weighed against the rest.
What you’ll learn
Training,recoveryandinjury,onetraitatatime.
Traits studied in athletic performance, training response and injury.
Training-response traits
What the research links to how people adapt to regular training, and your result on each trait.
Recovery between sessions
Your result on the traits researchers have looked at in recovery after hard sessions, in plain words.
Traits studied in injury
Your result on each trait studied in sports injury, and why a typical result is not protection.
Where the research stops
Why a link found across groups is a tendency, not a verdict on what you can do.
Something to take to your coach
A plain report to read with a coach or physical therapist, alongside what they already know about you.
What your report covers
Traitbytrait,inplainwords.
What the GeneSport report sets out. For each trait: your result, and what research has linked it to.
Power and enduranceGenes studied in whether people lean toward power or endurance activities.
Energy during exerciseGenes studied in how muscles make and use energy during exercise.
RecoveryGenes studied in the body’s inflammation response after hard training.
Tendons and ligamentsCollagen genes studied in tendon and ligament injuries.
Muscle crampsA gene studied in muscle cramping during exercise.
Caffeine and exerciseA caffeine gene studied in how caffeine affects endurance exercise.
Exercise and fat useGenes studied in how the body draws on stored fat for fuel when you move.
Training time of dayA body-clock gene studied in whether people prefer to train earlier or later in the day.
Each line says what a trait has been studied in, across groups of people. For general wellness and information, not diagnosis.
Your report
Yourresultoneachtrait,andwhattheresearchsays.
Each row names the trait, gives your result and says in plain words what the research links it to. Those links come from studies of groups, so they describe tendencies, not what will happen to you. It is one piece of context, read with everything else that shapes how you train and recover.
Associated with a mix of the traits studied in power and endurance activities.
Recovery
Typical
Associated with a typical inflammation response after hard training, across groups studied.
Tendons and ligaments
Typical
Associated with the common forms of the collagen genes studied in tendon and ligament injuries. It is not a sign of protection.
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
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GeneSport 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).
GeneSport
$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.
Traits studied in athletic performance, training response and injury. Its report sets out traits such as power and endurance, energy during exercise and recovery, each with what it has been studied in.
For general wellness and information, not diagnosis.
What can’t GeneSport tell you?
It can’t set a limit on what you can do, predict how you will perform, or tell you that you are protected from injury. 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
Forpeoplewhotrain,andwanttheresearchstraight.
It’s for you if
You train regularly, whether that’s running, lifting or a weekend league, and you’re curious what your genes have to do with it.
You’ve seen bold claims about genes and sport, and you’d rather check the evidence, and its limits, yourself.
You work with a coach or physical therapist and want one more piece of context to bring to them.
It isn’t for
It is not a talent test. It cannot say which sport to take up or how far you can go in it.
It is not a training plan. How you train, and how much, is for you and your coach to decide.
It is not a diagnosis, and it is not medical advice about pain or an injury. For those, see a clinician.
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.
01.Can GeneSport tell me which sport I’m suited to?+
No. These traits are studied across groups, and none of them sets what one person can do. The report shows which of them you carry, and what the research on each has found.
02.Does it say anything about injury?+
It gives your result on traits studied in sports injury, and what the research links each one to. It cannot tell you whether you’ll be injured, and a typical result is not a sign that you are protected. For pain or an injury, see a clinician.
03.Should I train differently because of a result?+
Not on the strength of a result alone. It is one piece of context. Talk it through with a coach or physical therapist, who can weigh it against how you actually train, sleep and recover.
04.Will my coach, team or club see my results?+
Only if you share your report with them. Your genetic data is never sold, and never shared for marketing or research.
05.How strong is the evidence?+
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.
06.Should I choose GeneSport or GeneCore?+
If training and recovery are what you are curious about, GeneSport keeps the whole report on them. GeneCore includes the same fitness area plus diet and health, all in one report.
07.Can the report change over time?+
Your DNA doesn’t change, but what is known about it does. With GeneMatrix+, your reports are re-read automatically whenever the evidence from our sources is updated.
08.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
Whatyourgenesleavetoyourtraining.
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.
01A genetic trait does not set a limit on what you can do. How you train, sleep, eat and rest shapes that too.
02A typical result on an injury trait is not a sign that you are protected from injury. How you load, rest and recover still matters.
03The associations come from population studies. They describe tendencies across groups, not how any one person responds.
04The 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.
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.
