Mosaic · Why Whole Genome
Read your DNA. All of it.
Most consumer DNA tests read about 600,000 positions out of 3 billion base pairs: enough to estimate ancestry, not enough to guide how you live.
6 billion
data points in your genome
All read.
30×
clinical-grade depth
Every position thirty times.
100%
of your genome
A reference for the rest of your life.
Forever
data ownership
Yours, in standard formats.
Four reasons whole-genome wins
What the depth and breadth actually buy you.
- 1
Coverage: every position, not just the famous ones
A consumer SNP chip reads ~600,000 of 3 billion base pairs; the other 99.98% is inferred or skipped. Mosaic reads all of it — every gene, every regulatory region, every variant you carry.
- 2
Depth: every position read thirty times
Read a position once and you can’t tell a real variant from a sequencing error. Mosaic reads every position 30 times, so each call is reliable enough to act on.
- 3
Clinical-grade: CLIA, COLA, CAP, AABB
Mosaic’s lab partner holds the four accreditations U.S. clinical reference labs run on — the same standard your doctor’s lab uses — plus state permits in NY, PA, MD and licenses in CA, RI.
- 4
Lifetime data ownership
Your raw genome is yours, in standard formats, downloadable anytime. Sequence once; every future Mosaic report — and any tool that reads standard files — runs on it for life.
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.
Full technical disclosure on the BYOD page and the Our Lab & Standards page.
The layer that makes it useful
Your genes are the instrument. Lifestyle plays the song.
A variant in your DNA tells you where your biology has more or less margin — the wiring diagram, not the verdict. Epigenetics is the science of how lifestyle changes gene expression. Every Mosaic insight names both the wiring and the modulators: which cofactors support the pathway, which dietary triggers stress it, which training inputs change it.
The Mosaic Biodata Institute is the part of the company that trains practitioners to do that translation work — gene to mechanism to coaching protocol — for clients.
Three ways to get yours.
Order a kit, register a provider account, or bring your own data. Every path lands at the same 108-insight Genomic Lifestyle Optimization Report.