Condition with elevated risk

On the overview page of your patient's version of their report, all of the conditions we currently test for are listed and arranged by your patient’s estimated lifetime risk percentage. The estimated lifetime risk is the estimated risk of manifesting the condition in an average lifetime based on your patient’s gender.

Each condition is color-coded gray or orange based on a comparison of the individual’s estimated lifetime risk and the average lifetime risk. The average lifetime risk encompasses both average environmental and average genetic risk, while the individual’s estimated lifetime risk is the increase or decrease from the average based on the genetic markers we assessed.

Orange indicates an overall lifetime risk greater than 25 percent (to call attention to conditions with an elevated absolute risk) or risk that is more than 20 percent above average for that particular condition (to call attention to an increased relative risk for less common conditions).

The normalized relative risk (the relative risk of an individual compared to the average genetic risk in the population) can be determined by dividing the individual’s estimated lifetime risk by the average lifetime risk in the population.