Raw DNA health report
A health report from the raw DNA file you already own.
If you tested with AncestryDNA or 23andMe, the raw data file behind that test is yours to download. MarkerView reads it and returns one plain-English PDF: what your covered markers say, how well your file covered them, and what is worth raising at your next appointment. It is educational, not a diagnosis.
No new kit · No subscription · Self-service account/data deletion
First question
Which files this works with
Two vendors' raw data downloads, and nothing else. The format is checked while the file is still in front of you, before checkout, so an unsupported file is turned away without a charge.
| What you upload | Accepted | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| AncestryDNA raw data download | Yes | .txt or .zip, exactly as the vendor gave it to you |
| 23andMe raw data download | Yes | .txt or .zip, exactly as the vendor gave it to you |
| One file from each of the two, merged | Yes | Comprehensive only, and the two files must be from different vendors |
| A recent Quest or Labcorp lab report | Yes | PDF only, Comprehensive only, optional. Those are the only two lab providers supported |
| MyHeritage and other comma-separated exports | Not today | Recognised and refused before you pay |
| Sequencing files, PDF exports, screenshots, ethnicity reports | Not today | Nothing here reads VCF, FASTQ or BAM; an ethnicity summary is not raw data |
Everything you attach has to come to under 30 MB in total — upload the .zip exactly as downloaded and it comfortably will. Re-zipping the export with renamed contents can make an otherwise valid file unreadable. The full list, with the exact wording of each refusal, is on supported files; if you have not pulled your file yet, here is how to download it.
What arrives
What is actually in the report
One A4 PDF, emailed to you and waiting in your dashboard. A Comprehensive report can run to eleven sections. Sections with nothing to say are dropped and the rest are renumbered, so two reports rarely share a table of contents.
- One-Page Health Handoff
- Your Data & Its Limits
- Medication Interaction Review
- Laboratory Results
- Polygenic & Preventive Insights
- Worth Measuring Directly
- Pharmacogenomics — Medication Response
- Evidence-Based Genetic Associations
- Wellness & Next Steps
- Your Supplements
- Appendix: Unconfirmed Rare-Variant Calls
Page one is the part a clinician reads first: a short profile, at most three ranked action items, and a standing line saying not to start, stop or change any prescription medicine on the strength of the report. Nine named condition areas are screened, and each prints its result — including where nothing notable turned up.
Basic and Comprehensive
Basic ($10, one time) reads one raw DNA file. Comprehensive ($20, one time) adds three things the server blocks on Basic: a second vendor's file merged with the first, the medication and supplement interaction review, and an optional PDF of recent Quest or Labcorp results read alongside the genetics. On a Basic order those sections still print, saying plainly that no medication list, no laboratory report and no second file were provided rather than implying an all-clear. See the layout, page by page →
Read this before you buy
What a report like this cannot do
- A consumer array is not sequencing. Your file reports the letters found at a fixed set of predefined positions. Genes are not sequenced, gene copies are not counted, and which parent a variant came from cannot be determined.
- Markers go missing, and absence proves nothing. No-calls, insertion and deletion markers, and positions your chip never covered are not analysed at all. “Nothing notable found” means nothing notable among the markers your file happened to cover. It never rules a condition out and it is not a substitute for guideline-recommended screening.
- Rare, alarming calls are not put on the front page. A rare damaging-looking call on this kind of file is more often a reading error than a real finding, so those calls are held back in an appendix and framed for one action: a conversation with your clinician about confirming them. The National Library of Medicine makes the general point too — results built on incomplete information can give false reassurance, and typically need confirming with testing ordered through a healthcare professional (MedlinePlus Genetics).
- Nobody reviews your individual report. There is no clinician in the loop, no diagnosis and no treatment plan. The report says so on every printed page.
- Confirmation is a diagnostic test ordered by your clinician, not another consumer test. Discuss anything in the report with your physician or pharmacist before changing a medication, a supplement or anything else about your care.
Polygenic figures, where they appear at all, are research-grade estimates from published marker panels: a statistical comparison against a reference population, not a prediction and not a diagnosis.
Three steps
How it works
1
Upload the file you already have
Sign in, choose your plan and attach the .txt or .zip from AncestryDNA or 23andMe. The format check runs first, before checkout.
2
Add context, if you want it
On Comprehensive: your medications, your supplements, and optionally a recent Quest or Labcorp PDF.
3
Read it, then bring it
The PDF arrives by email and sits in your dashboard, usually within a couple of hours. It is yours to keep, print and hand to your physician.
The longer walkthrough, including what happens to a file that will not parse, is on how it works.
Where the findings come from
Matched against published sources, not asserted
Marker-to-condition mappings are looked up in public variant archives and a curated allowlist of panels rather than generated. Findings about medicines name the guideline behind them — CPIC or PharmGKB — with its PubMed ID, and a finding with no guideline behind it is labelled as such. Drug and supplement information is drawn from the drug labeling the FDA publishes through DailyMed. Only two polygenic panels are eligible to be scored at all, and a score is left out when your file does not cover enough of that panel. A large language model writes some of the connecting sentences; it never classifies a variant, and its output is rejected when it carries statistics, advice or dose language. The full methodology and source list →
Context
The evidence base is public, and it moves
6,959,709 submitted records
ClinVar, the archive at the US National Center for Biotechnology Information where laboratories deposit their interpretations of genetic variants, listed 6,959,709 submitted records covering 4,559,503 variants from 3,519 submitters in 98 countries when we read it on 4 September 2026 (ClinVar, NCBI). That is the scale of the public evidence a report like this rests on, and the reason an interpretation can change over time.
It is also why the last step belongs to a clinician. The US Food and Drug Administration tells people who receive direct-to-consumer genetic test results to consult a health care provider about the right next steps, including getting confirmatory genetic testing, if applicable
(FDA, Direct-to-Consumer Tests). MarkerView is built to make that appointment more useful, not to stand in for it.
Your data
What happens to the file after you upload it
Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest. We never sell data that identifies you. Deletion is self-service and immediate: sign in, open Settings and choose to delete your account and data — no email request, no phone call, no waiting period.
What is held, for how long, what deletion removes, and where genetic-discrimination law protects you and where it stops are set out on your genetic data and on Trust & Privacy. To go straight there: delete your data.
Questions
Common questions
Do I need a new DNA kit?
No. If AncestryDNA or 23andMe has already tested you, the raw data file is free to download from your account there and it is all MarkerView needs. No saliva sample, no doctor's order, no appointment.
What happens if my file is not supported?
You find out before you pay. The format is checked the moment you attach the file, and an unsupported or empty file is refused with a message explaining what to upload instead. A file that passes that check can still fail later in processing; support sorts that out with you.
How long does it take?
Usually within a couple of hours. The report is emailed as a single PDF and is also waiting in your dashboard, where every download is recorded against your account.
Is this a diagnosis, or medical advice?
Neither. MarkerView is an informational service and not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat or prevent anything, no clinician reviews individual reports, and the report repeats that on every page. It is written to be read alongside your physician, not instead of one.
Can I get an updated report later?
Yes, while your DNA analysis is still held. A re-run replays the report against the DNA already analysed and reads your medications and lab work fresh, so new medicines mean a new interaction review without paying for the DNA work twice. It is not a new DNA analysis, and once the analysis has been deleted under the retention policy a fresh upload is needed.
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References
Sources read and confirmed on 4 September 2026. Published · Last reviewed · Report a factual error
- US Food and Drug Administration, Direct-to-Consumer Tests — consulting a health care provider about next steps, including confirmatory genetic testing.
- MedlinePlus Genetics, US National Library of Medicine, Benefits and risks of direct-to-consumer genetic testing — incomplete panels, false reassurance, confirmatory testing.
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, ClinVar — the record, variant and submitter counts quoted above.
- US National Library of Medicine, DailyMed — the official provider of FDA drug label information.