Understand your inherited risk.
So you and your clinician can decide what to do about it. ARC-OMIX tests launch soon; once they do, your clinician can order one for you.
One piece of a larger picture.
A polygenic risk score is one piece of a larger picture. Combined with your biometrics, family history, and lifestyle, it helps you and your physician shape your care plan — it isn’t a stand-alone diagnosis.
What it can and can’t tell you.
It’s most helpful in three situations.
Your father had a heart attack at 52; your aunt has diabetes. ARC-OMIX can estimate how much of your risk comes from common inherited variants, so you and your doctor make evidence-based decisions about screening and prevention.
Family history is a signal. A PRS measures the part carried in common genetic variants.
You’re in your 30s or 40s and feel fine, but you want decisions about cholesterol, blood pressure, and lifestyle informed by more than age-based risk estimates.
Genetic risk at 35 or 45 is more actionable than a diagnosis at 60.
You eat well but your cholesterol is high. ARC-CHOL integrates a polygenic score with analysis of rare genetic variants to provide a comprehensive assessment of the genetic factors that may underlie high cholesterol.
ARC-CHOL is coming soon.
From conversation to results in a few weeks.
Your inherited risk for coronary heart disease is in the 92nd percentile of similarly aged adults, higher than average.
CHD: coronary heart disease. AFib: atrial fibrillation. AAA: abdominal aortic aneurysm. T2D: type 2 diabetes. CKD: chronic kidney disease. In this example, coronary heart disease (92nd percentile) and atrial fibrillation (81st) are higher than average; the others are about average. A higher percentile reflects more inherited risk, not a diagnosis. Your clinician reviews every result with you before any decision is made.
A concise clinical report.
A summary you can both read.
The first page is a plain-language summary, written for you and your clinician together, with your risk percentile for each condition and what it means.
Reviewed by a person.
Every report is checked by the clinical laboratory director before it’s released, not just by a computer.
Your clinician goes through it with you.
The report goes to the clinician who ordered it, and they review the results with you before any decision is made.
If your result is higher than average
A higher result is not a diagnosis. Your clinician walks through it with you and what, if anything, to do next — and ABGC-certified genetic counselors are available by telehealth if you’d like to talk it through.
How we protect your data.
You can request a full export, correction, or deletion at any time.
No data brokers. No advertising. No sharing with employers or insurers.
You choose whether your data is used for research, and you can change your mind at any time. Either way, your test and care are unaffected.
Kept on HIPAA-compliant infrastructure, encrypted in transit and at rest, under a signed business associate agreement.
Talk to your clinician about whether ARC-OMIX is right for you.
ARC-OMIX is a clinician-ordered test. If your doctor isn’t familiar with us, share this page or email us for a one-pager they can read in a few minutes.