Map Your Own Genome with Dante’s €149 DNA Kit
Dante Labs, a company with offices in Europe and United States, has now launched a €149 (£139) advanced consumer DNA test, with interpretation, personal genetic service and 80+ online health and wellness reports.
“We wanted to develop a new high quality, affordable test that fulfils our mission to make advanced genomics accessible to everyone,” Dante Labs CEO and Co-founder Andrea Riposati said in a statement. “Developing this test required significant investments in bioinformatics, genetics, European-level logistics and software.”
The test is non-invasive, requiring a saliva sample, which can be collected using the kit at home and shipped back to Dante Labs for free. Customers can expect their test results within 3 weeks and can make sense of them using personalized online reports, which provide more information about topics including the risk of heart attacks, muscle fatigue, digestion, blood and the side effects of different drugs.
The company uses Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology, which is a very powerful genetic testing tool. It allows an individual’s genome to be quickly and cheaply interpreted, and it has revolutionized healthcare, enabling personalized medicine.
The company has developed the new test based on advanced microarray
technologies together with European and international academic and corporate partners. The test includes more than 500,000 SNPs. This opens the door for very interesting reports for customers, but at a very affordable price.
This sort of technology is already available in the US but can be very expensive, particularly due to high shipping costs. Dante Labs looks to overcome this by bringing high-quality technology to the European market, without the frightening costs.
