Our genetic test tells you how you and your partner’s genetics can impact your future children’s health. We quantify genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease, atrial fibrillation, bipolar disorder, breast cancer, celiac disease, coronary artery disease, inflammatory bowel disease, prostate cancer, severe obesity, schizophrenia, type 1 diabetes, and type 2 diabetes.

Your Couple Report will tell you if your future child’s genetic risk is expected to be normal or elevated. Your results also include individual reports for each partner — where you can discover your genetic risks for these conditions to help you take action and optimize your own health.

Anyone who is thinking of starting or growing their family can benefit from being aware of genetic risks early. Our goal is to help you prepare and to be proactive about your family’s health.

At Orchid, we take the role we play in delivering clinical-grade information to you at this life-altering milestone in your life seriously.

• Our sequence data is over 99% accurate across the entire genome.
  Orchid ensures quality sequencing through clinical-grade laboratory testing that uses Illumina-based platforms. This means genetic markers are correctly identified in each sample we run.
  
• Results are backed by peer-reviewed, reproducible case-control studies. 
  Large-scale genetic studies have shown quantifying genetic risk accurately identifies people who are more likely to develop a disease. These findings have been consistently demonstrated and validated through aggregated data from hundreds of thousands of individuals.
  
• Top doctors and scientists helped create our test, and all results are approved by a physician. 
  We’ve partnered with top reproductive medicine doctors and statistical geneticists to help validate our technology. We are trusted by leading fertility clinics and all results are approved by independent physician review to ensure accuracy.  
  

Orchid sequences and analyzes 6 billion data points across the genome of you and your partner from your saliva samples. Based on you and your partner’s genetic information alone, we’re able to statistically model the range of possibilities for your future child’s genome.
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Once we’ve modeled how you and your partner’s DNA can realistically combine, we quantify what your future child’s genetic risks can be. For each condition, this is done by comparing the genetic makeup of hundreds of thousands of individuals diagnosed with the conditions we screen for (“cases”) with individuals without diseases (“controls”).

No, quite the opposite. Knowing your genetic risks helps you go into pregnancy better prepared and informed on what actions can be taken to mitigate those risks.

Some couples may tailor their family’s diet, fitness and preventative screening; others may consider electing for follow-up embryo screening in the IVF setting. Our goal is to help every couple who wants to start or grow their family to conceive confidently and proactively monitor their future child’s health.

Knowing your genetic predispositions ahead of time helps you optimize your family’s health.

• Tailor your family’s diet, fitness, and health.
  Better prepare for the future through personalized insights and increased awareness. Motivate healthy lifestyle changes to offset your own genetic risks by getting active, prioritizing earlier screening, monitoring key biometric data, and fueling with the right foods for you. 
  
• Choose to mitigate your future child’s genetic risks through follow-up embryo testing.
  If your couple report shows that your future child has an increased genetic predisposition to a condition, you have options about how you want to use this information. One option is to choose to lower your future child’s genetic risk through in vitro fertilization (IVF) and follow-up embryo screening. By determining each embryo’s genetic risk for certain conditions, you can elect to prioritize transferring embryos with the lowest genetic risk.
  

Your privacy is our top priority. We handle sensitive, personal information and biological samples and we don’t take that responsibility lightly.

We guarantee that:

• We do not sell your data to any third party, ever.
• You can ask us to delete your data at any time, but this will mean that you cannot access the Orchid service to view your reports anymore.