How genomics works
Your DNA, read on your device.
Upload the raw DNA file from 23andMe or AncestryDNA, or a VCF or gVCF file. Further Health stores it encrypted on your iPhone and reads it there: polygenic scores, how your body may process some medicines, carrier status, wellness traits and more, to discuss with your clinician. Your DNA file never leaves your phone.
From your DNA file to plain English.
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Upload your DNA file
The raw file from 23andMe or AncestryDNA, or a VCF or gVCF file.
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Stored encrypted on your iPhone
The file is kept encrypted on the phone you uploaded it to. It never leaves your phone.
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Read on your phone
Polygenic scores, medicine-processing tendencies, carrier status and wellness traits are computed on your iPhone and shown in plain English.
Everything your DNA file points to, in plain English.
The figures and results shown below are an illustrative example profile, not your own results.
Medicines
How your body may process some medicines.
About one in four prescription drugs is broken down by a small set of genes. Reading yours describes a general tendency in how your body may process some medicines, to discuss with your clinician.
- Common prescription drugsTypical processing
- Statin responseTypical
- Warfarin (blood thinner)Increased tendency
- FluoropyrimidinesTypical
Mapped to CPIC pharmacogenomic guidance. Educational context for you and your clinician, not a prescription.
Directional loading
Which way your DNA leans.
A polygenic score adds up millions of tiny genetic effects into a single directional signal, which way your DNA leans for a trait. It's context for a conversation with your clinician, not a diagnosis, and it's less precise for non-European ancestries.
- Heart healthLeans higher
- Memory & agingLeans slightly higher
- Blood-sugar handlingLeans lower
- Heart rhythmAround average
Directional signals only, no percentiles or absolute risk. Less precise for non-European ancestries. Observations, not a diagnosis.
Nutrition & food response
How your body reacts to what you eat.
Small genetic differences change how you handle caffeine, dairy, alcohol, and fat. None of it is destiny, but it explains a lot of what you already feel.
- CaffeineSlower processing
- LactoseTolerant
- Saturated fatStronger LDL response
- Vitamin DLower baseline
Carrier status
What you could pass on.
A recessive condition needs two broken copies to show up. Carrying one usually means nothing for your own health, but it matters for family planning.
- Hereditary hemochromatosisCarrier · one copy
- Cystic fibrosisNot detected
- Hereditary breast & ovarianNot detected
- Tay-SachsNot detected
A consumer DNA test can miss variants. Not detected does not rule a condition out.
Traits
The small stuff that's just you.
Not medical, just human. Hundreds of little readouts, from eye color to whether cilantro tastes like soap.
- Eye colorLikely brown / hazel
- ChronotypeSlight morning preference
- CilantroTastes normal, not soapy
- Earwax typeWet (typical European)
DNA privacy
Your DNA never leaves your device.
Genomes can never be revoked or changed. Further parses your raw file locally and reads only the positions needed for analysis. Your raw data is never uploaded, never logged, never shared. Same variant, same finding, every time.
See it run on your own DNA.
Observations to raise with your clinician. Informational only, not medical advice.