GeneType Multi-Risk Test
The GeneType Multi-Risk Test offers a comprehensive assessment of genetic risks for several critical diseases. These include: breast cancer (women only), ovarian cancer (women only), colorectal cancer, melanoma, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer (men only), atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes.
With this test, patients can gain insight into their predisposition to these conditions, helping them make informed decisions about their health and lifestyle choices.
Take a proactive approach to your health. Be in the know with geneType!
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Results in 4-5 weeks
From $249
- Must be 30 years or older to order this test
- Ordered by a telehealth physician using an online portal
- Be empowered to make informed decisions with your doctor
- NY state residents can order breast and colorectal risk assessments only
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How it Works
Key Features of the Genetic Predisposition Test
What is a geneType Multi-Risk test?
The GeneType Multi-Risk test is a risk assessment test that predicts your personal risk for a range of diseases. When you go to the doctor, they usually ask about your family history of disease, and they take a look at your blood pressure, weight and look at your bloodwork. All of that is part of a traditional risk assessment.
• Problem: But many people develop disease like cancer or cardiovascular disease “out of the blue,” and our doctors didn’t suspect they were at risk!
• Solution: geneType can identify more adults that may be at-risk of disease so you and your doctor may be able to take action to reduce that risk!
GeneType can therefore give you a better prediction of your risk to empower you to undertake the best risk mitigation strategies and protect your own health.
How does geneType work?
GeneType looks at more risk factors – including ones that may not be routinely examined by your doctor. Risk factors are different from disease to disease, but examples include: polygenic risk, BMI, family history, cholesterol level, blood pressure and breast density status.
Risk factors explained:
• Polygenic risk: This test looks at low levels of genetic predisposition called polygenic risk. You were born with this risk, and you cannot change this risk. But it’s important to know that it is only ONE of MANY risk factors that can help predict your risk of developing disease.
• BMI: your body mass index is an important risk factor that is associated with many diseases from cancers to cardiovascular diseases to diabetes. This is a factor you can change.
• Family History: You cannot change your family history. But sometimes you don’t know your family history well, or at all. This is why it’s important to consider additional risk factors and not just rely on family history.
• Breast Density Status: The amount of tissue in a mammogram image that makes it harder to see a potential tumor. If you have had a mammogram, you will have gotten a breast density notification letter. There are four general BI-RADS categories to define breast density status.
Not as dense = entirely fatty & scattered fibroglandular density
More dense = heterogeneously dense & extremely dense.
Learn more about breast density and the notification letter you received from your last mammogram using this link.
• Blood pressure: Blood pressure is an indicator of your health. It can be used to predict your chances of developing disease in the future, but it can also be modified by exercise or by medication.
• Cholesterol levels: Cholesterol levels can contribute to disease, and your doctor will want to try and get your cholesterol to a certain level. It can be used to predict your chances of developing disease in the future, but it can also be modified by exercise or by medication.
Technology:
The geneType test is based on years of scientific data. Scientists looked at thousands of people with disease compared to thousands of people without disease to identify differences. Those differences are risk factors that we can quantify. This risk assessment looks at the most impactful risk factors associated with disease and combines them together to predict your chances of getting that disease.
Diseases covered by the Genetype Multi-Risk Test
The GeneType Multi-Risk Test offers a comprehensive assessment of genetic risks for several critical diseases. These include:
• Breast cancer (women only)
• Ovarian cancer (women only)
• Colorectal cancer
• Melanoma
• Pancreatic cancer
• Prostate cancer (men only)
• Atrial fibrillation
• Coronary artery disease
• Type 2 diabetes
With this test, patients can gain insight into their predisposition to these conditions, helping them make informed decisions about their health and lifestyle choices.
The test is available in two options:
• Single-disease assessment for $249 (any single disease from Multi-Risk test).
• Full panel covering all eligible diseases for $349 (all diseases in the Multi-Risk test as long as you are eligible).
The full panel option provides an in-depth analysis of multiple conditions for which the patient qualifies, making it a cost-effective solution for those looking for a broad disease risk overview.
Patients eligible for this test must be healthy, asymptomatic individuals, aged 30 and over for cancer assessments and 40 and over for all other diseases. The test is designed to identify genetic risk factors early, allowing patients and healthcare providers to implement preventive measures where necessary.
What are the benefits?
Picture an iceberg. The risks that you and your doctor usually talk about are the ones you can see. Have you ever thought about the ones that you can’t see (below the water)? One of the risk factors that geneType looks at, called polygenic risk, is a risk factor that you can’t see. But everyone has a polygenic risk.
By getting your risk assessment through geneType, you get a better picture of your overall risk, by looking at “common” risk factors like family history and BMI, but also looking at “hidden” risk like polygenic risk.
When you have a better understanding of your risk, you and your doctor can make more informed decisions about screening for certain diseases, risk-reducing medications and even changes to lifestyle habits to reduce your risk.
You may even learn about a disease risk that you weren’t even aware of!
Technology based on years of data
These tests are based on years of epidemiological data. That is when scientists study why a disease occurs in different groups of people, and how often a disease occurs depending on different characteristics of a group of people. The geneType technology looks at both clinical and genetic risk factors and combine them into a single risk prediction tool.
Scientific publications behind the geneType technology are listed here.
More about geneType: pioneers in clinical risk prediction
GeneType is part of Genetic Technologies Limited, a pioneer in the field of clinical genetics that has spent the past 20 years decoding the genome and unlocking its value for human health.
Under our geneType product series, our clinicians, scientists and technicians are working to develop the next generation of integrated predictive genetic testing and assessment tools – empowering physicians and patients to proactively manage health.
The company has also evolved into a world leader in Genetic Risk Assessment. Our brand geneType offers integrated risk testing for a range of serious conditions. GeneType disease prediction can allow for personalized preventive health plans to manage risk. Early detection can save lives!
For more information visit our website https://genetype.com/
FAQs
Your DNA is made up of 3 billion base paired nucleotides. The four main nucleotides A, G, C, & T (known as adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine) are strung together in a unique code that contains all the information necessary to make you, YOU! When we compare your DNA to your neighbors DNA, it is 99.9% identical. The 0.1% difference are due to single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP). These SNP are common genetic variations that are normal. They make you unique. Everyone has a different combination of these SNP. When scientists started looking at large groups of people with a certain disease compared to people without that disease, they noticed different patterns of SNP. Polygenic risk is a specific combination of SNP that are associated with a disease (like breast cancer) or a trait (like height).
Everyone has a polygenic risk that can define their predisposition to a disease, or trait. It is like a “baseline” risk you are born with. But remember, disease develops due to the combination of many risk factors and polygenic risk is only one risk factor out of many. Polygenic risk alone will not determine your fate.
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