Find out the presence, in your DNA, of mutations that while not causing illness for you, can be transmitted to your children, who may be sick instead, or that your children may in turn transmit: protect the health of your family.
Carrier DNA is a very useful report always, and in particular if you and your partner are planning to have children.
From a saliva sample, easily collected at home with our sampling kit and sent to our labs, we extract your DNA, we genotype it, we obtain the list of over 700,000 variants that characterize you and distinguish you from each other individual, and we process the data obtained, together with the information provided by you, to create your personality and intellectual abilities report.
And, if you have already purchased another Smart Genome report, or if you own your raw data provided by another personal genomics company, you do not have to repeat the lab test and to collect saliva: we analyze your already available data to generate the Carrier DNA report!
CARRIER DNA
Unlike complex diseases, which depend on the interaction of multiple mutated genes and non-genetic factors, there are genetic diseases caused by single mutations in individual genes.
These mutations are transmitted according to a simple Mendelian mechanism and, when they are of the 'recessive' type, it is possible that the carrier of the mutation, being clinically healthy, is not aware of owning it and doesn't know the risk of transmitting it to their children, who may instead be sick, if they inherit the same mutation also from the other parent.This report evaluates the presence of recessive, dominant or X-linked mutations for over 250 genetic diseases, contributing significantly to protect not only your health, but also your family's health.
Carrier DNA includes the research of any recessive, dominant or X-linked, mutations in homozygosity and/or heterozygosity, for more than 250 genetic diseaseas including the research of 1,000 genes whose analysis is recommended by the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (1000 ACMG-recommended genes).
