Clinical-grade. By every standard that matters.
Mosaic’s lab partner holds the four accreditations every U.S. clinical reference lab runs on (CLIA, COLA, CAP, AABB), plus permits and licenses in five of the strictest states. The same standards your doctor’s reference lab is held to.
Four accreditations, inspected independently.
Your kit is sequenced at a U.S. clinical reference lab that holds all four. Each is awarded by an independent body and renewed under inspection.
CLIA · Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments
The federal standard for clinical laboratory testing. Every lab that returns results used in patient care must meet CLIA, and most consumer DNA companies stop at this baseline.
COLA · Commission on Office Laboratory Accreditation
An additional quality-and-process review layer on top of CLIA. Inspectors look at every step: sample handling, calibration, documentation, staff training.
CAP · College of American Pathologists
The most rigorous lab accreditation in the U.S. The same standard major hospital reference labs are held to.
AABB · Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies
Began as the blood-banking accreditor. Now a leading accreditor of molecular and genomic testing labs as well.
Plus permits or licenses from the five strictest state regulators.
New York
Pennsylvania
Maryland
California
Rhode Island
What the credentials mean for you.
Calls you can act on
At 30× depth every position is read thirty times. The pipeline filters errors, confirms calls against reference data, and flags anything ambiguous.
Results any provider can use
The accreditations match the reference lab your doctor already uses, so your practitioner works from the results directly.
Clinical equipment and standards
Whole-genome sequencing on reference-lab equipment, held to clinical standards. A SNP-chip ancestry test runs on different equipment under a different standard.
How a Mosaic sample becomes a report.
- 01
Sample in
Your swab arrives under an anonymized ID. The lab never sees your name.
- 02
Quality control
The sample and every read are checked before anything is called.
- 03
Sequencing
Short-read whole-genome sequencing on an Illumina instrument, at 30× depth.
- 04
Alignment
Each read is placed on the human reference genome.
- 05
Variant calling
Every position where your DNA differs is called, filtered, and written to a standard VCF.
- 06
Your report
Mosaic reads the variants behind each insight and renders your report. The VCF stays yours.
A note on methodology
We don’t impute from reference panels.
Some platforms use a method called imputation: they statistically guess at positions they never actually read, based on patterns in reference populations. We don’t. If your data doesn’t cover a position, the report tells you. The blanks stay blank.
The same rule applies when you upload your own file.
Your genome stays yours.
Mosaic runs a PHI-safe data pipeline. Your sample is pseudonymized before it leaves your kit; the lab works with an anonymized identifier and never sees your name. Files are encrypted in transit and at rest, and access is logged.
Retention is on your terms. Download your raw data anytime, in standard formats, and use it anywhere. If you ever want it gone, the right to delete is built in.
We never sell, share, license, or monetize your genome. Not now. Not ever. This is the one promise we’re willing to make in absolute terms.