A screenshot from Promethease's health report |
There are two options when you purchase a health report: you can create a free account, or you can get your report without an account. With an account, your raw DNA data which you upload is saved on the site (until/unless you ever decide to delete it). The report generated from it is deleted from the website after 45 days, however, you can regenerate the report from your saved raw data for free at any time. If you manage more than one kit, you can include them all on one account (but each report still costs $5). If you don't create an account, after 24 hours, everything (including your raw DNA data) will be deleted from their site and if you ever need to regenerate the report, you would have to pay again. Either way, the report is downloadable to save on your computer for future use, and so you can give a copy to your doctor. So creating an account is beneficial for regenerating the report at any time for free, especially if there are updates to the report. But for those who are concerned with privacy and don't want to store their DNA on the site, they have that option. For more information on Promethease's privacy policy, see here.
Promethease's tutorial |
Although it explains, in plain English, what different genes are associated with and what it means, whether it's good or bad for you, etc, the most confusing thing about it is that you can have one gene that says you have a decreased risk of something, and another gene that says you have an increased risk of the exact same thing. How that plays out in reality is really something you'd have to ask your doctor. Essentially, all Promethease is doing is pulling data from SNPedia, which is like Wikipedia for genetics (they source their info from peer-reviewed scientific publications), so you don't have to go looking up each one of your genes and what they might be associated with.
The amount of information the report includes makes it impossible to view everything at once, which is why they've included various ways to search, filter, and sort the results. If you want to see everything on cancer, for example, you can either use the search bar at the top for "cancer", or select cancer from the "medical conditions" drop down bar on the right. It will then list all genes you have which are associated with cancer, good or bad, or "not set" (see image above right). I normally untick the option for "not set" because this basically means there's not enough information to say whether the association is good or bad and that means it doesn't really tell you anything.
Read through all the info and click "more info" to get complete data on what a gene is associated with. |
Magnitude chart |
Conclusion: Although a little technical and can be confusing if you have genes that seemingly conflict with one another, the amount of information you get for a mere $5 is absolutely worth it, particularly because they do explain, in plain English, what the results mean. This is easily the most comprehensive health report available, especially for the price. The ability to download the report in its entirety is extremely beneficial as well, not only for future reference, but also so you can give it to your doctor (an option that is surprisingly lacking on many other health reports I've used), and I would strongly recommend taking it to your doctor as well, for a better understanding.
Thanks for the positive review! Feel free to pass on suggestions for improvements to SNPedia or Promethease any time - we welcome community curation and feedback.
ReplyDeleteI am confused as far as the pricing goes is it that you go from 23andMe and charge one $5 per line or is it $5 per analysis
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what you mean by "per line"? It's $5 per raw data kit you upload. If you create an account and save the kit, you won't have to pay for reports for that kit again, because you don't have to upload it again. If you upload without an account, the kit isn't saved, and if you want to regenerate the report, you have upload the kit again, which means paying for it again.
DeleteIt appears to me that you are confused about how the English language works. She clearly stated $5 per report. There was no mention of "line" or "analysis" to cause you confusion. Based on your sentence (if one could call it that) English is not your best language.
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