The team of bioinformaticians, Genetic Health Coaches, and writers at Sequencing.
The Sequencing team is made up of physicians, bioinformaticians, Genetic Health Coaches, and health writers who create and review the content published on Sequencing. The team draws on backgrounds in medical genetics, personalized preventive medicine, and genetic health coaching to make sure every article reflects current science and gives readers something they can act on.
This byline is used for articles written collaboratively across the team, or when content does not have a single named author. Every article carries the same standard of review regardless of byline.
Walking into a medical appointment prepared can change everything, especially when your health story is complex. Learn how to build a one page advocacy sheet and bring the right…
If your clinical genetic test report looks shorter than your Sequencing results, that is usually expected. Here is the difference between what was tested, what was analyzed, and…
This article explains what polygenic risk scores (PRS) are and how they are calculated, why they may not work equally well for everyone, and how PRS differs from single-gene…
Carrying a gene variant doesn't mean you'll get sick. Here's how penetrance works, why two people with the same variant can have completely different outcomes, and what a positive…
Learn what copy-number changes in DNA are, what they mean for your health, and how genetic testing can identify these variations in plain language.
Learn how heteroplasmy, the threshold effect, and maternal inheritance shape mitochondrial genetics and disease risk, explained in plain language.
Learn how reference genome builds hg19 and hg38 differ, why genomic coordinates change between versions, and what it means for your DNA test results.
A plain language explanation of why estimates of how common a genetic variant is in a population (allele frequency) can differ among gnomAD, ExAC, ALFA, TOPMed, and ClinVar.