What is inside the file
Your export holds 600,000 or more SNPs — positions in your genome where people differ. Each one maps to research on disease risk, drug response, nutrient processing and fitness traits. The ancestry breakdown uses a tiny slice of it; the rest is just sitting there.
Five things your raw data can reveal
- Clinical variants (ClinVar) — pathogenic, carrier and protective markers worth knowing about.
- Medication response (PharmGKB) — how you metabolise common drugs like clopidogrel, statins and SSRIs.
- Nutrition — lactose, caffeine and alcohol tolerance, folate (MTHFR), vitamin B12 and D handling.
- Fitness — power versus endurance (ACTN3), VO2max-linked variants, injury risk.
- Trait and ancestry depth — including your deep haplogroup lineage.
How to read it without a genetics degree
Upload the raw file to Whale DNA. A chat agent reads it against ClinVar, PharmGKB and GWAS, explains it in plain language, and lets you ask follow-up questions about your own variants. Your raw file is deleted after 24 hours.