When sending your saliva in to a direct-to-consumer genetic…
When sending your saliva in to a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company they will perform to look for genetic variants, which requires prior identification of variants of interest and is for companies because it only looks at very specific places in the DNA. The genetic health risk report will determine your which is the increased likelihood of developing a particular disease based on your genetic makeup. Having an increased genetic risk for a disease means that you will be affected by that disease in your lifetime. The will use DNA sequence polymorphisms whose allele frequencies are significantly different in populations from different geographical regions of the world to determine your ancestry.