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The Variant: Heart & Lipids

Posts about Heart & Lipids from The Variant, Varia's genomic publication.

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Catalog explainer Heart & Lipids

What does Factor V Leiden (rs6025) mean?

A plain-language explainer of Factor V Leiden (rs6025), the most common inherited blood-clotting variant, which Varia reads from your raw DNA file under Heart and Lipids.

Research Watch Heart & Lipids

Polygenic risk scores: what the evidence actually supports

Polygenic risk scores are having a moment in consumer genomics. Here is what the published evidence actually supports, where they help, and why Varia explains them without ever printing a personal risk number.