Conditions we cover
- Abdominal aneurysm
- Alzheimer's disease
- Atrial fibrillation
- Breast cancer
- Celiac disease
- Colon cancer
- Crohn's disease
- Multiple sclerosis
- Obesity
- Osteoarthritis
- Prostate cancer
- Psoriasis
- Restless legs syndrome
- Rheumatoid arthritis
Navigenics scans your DNA for markers associated with many common diseases. We have rigorous standards for deciding which health conditions to include in Navigenics Health Compass.
- The condition must affect at least one in 1,000 Americans.
- We only include conditions where you can take action after learning your results. In some cases, that action will be lifestyle changes to help prevent the disease. In others, it might be early screening or heightened awareness, helping shorten the time from first symptoms to diagnosis. In some cases, medications may help you prevent or delay a condition.
- The association between the genetic marker and the disease must have been published in a top-tier, peer-reviewed medical/scientific journal and replicated at least once. The association is then vetted by our team of Ph.D. geneticists for accuracy and validity.
As a result, fewer than 5 percent of marker-to-condition associations reported in the scientific literature make it onto our test panel.
Our menu of reported health conditions is being updated continually as new research comes out. Navigenics members are automatically updated by e-mail when new conditions are added to the testing panel.
And if you wish, you can choose not to receive results for certain diseases.
