What to do with your 23andMe raw data

Re-analysis, not a new test

Aimosti does not sequence you or take a sample. You already own your genotype file — the same raw data 23andMe generated from your saliva. We re-read it against today's versions of ClinVar, ACMG and CPIC, and hand back a plain-language report that names every source. If your chip was read in 2018 or 2021, the file hasn't changed, but the evidence has — that gap is exactly what a re-analysis surfaces.

How to download your 23andMe raw data

If you haven't exported it yet — do this first, and keep the file somewhere private:

1. Sign in at 23andMe and open Settings.
2. Scroll to the 23andMe Data section and choose Download raw data.
3. Request the Raw data download (the uninterpreted genotype file — a .txt, usually delivered zipped). This is the file we re-analyse; the Reports and Ancestry Composition are 23andMe's own interpretations.
4. Save it. If you also intend to delete your 23andMe account, download before you delete — deletion is irreversible. See our bankruptcy explainer for the full download-then-delete walkthrough.

What a 23andMe file can — and can't — show

We'd rather be straight with you than oversell a chip. Honest scope:

• Reads well: common variants the chip explicitly targets — most CPIC pharmacogenomic star alleles (for example CYP2C19 *2 and *3, which drive clopidogrel response), major carrier variants, and well-characterised risk alleles.
• Reads with caveats: anything at a position the chip didn't call. We show no-calls as no-calls instead of imputing over them.
• Can't resolve: structural and copy-number variation — notably CYP2D6 copy-number, which shapes how you process many common drugs. From array data that status is often indeterminate, and we will say so rather than report a metabolizer status that might be wrong.

This is the opposite of the "20,000 findings, be very worried" export. If you want whole-genome depth later, a WGS re-analysis resolves much of what a chip can't — but for most people a chip re-analysis is the honest, useful place to start.

Your file stays in the EU

• EU-sovereign. Your data is processed and stored in Finland and never leaves the European Union, under GDPR Article 9 special-category protection.
• The raw upload is ephemeral. We delete it after analysis by default; subscribers keep only a small normalised variant file, and only with explicit, withdrawable consent.
• Never sold, never mined, never used to train AI. There is no genome vault here to be auctioned in a bankruptcy — the thing 23andMe taught everyone to worry about doesn't exist in this model. Read the full security architecture →

Common questions

Why not the €23 option?

Promethease and Genetic Genie read the same public databases we do. The difference is time. They hand you a report frozen on the day you run it, built from the few thousand positions a genotyping chip happens to type. We read your whole genome where you have it, attribute every finding to the guideline it came from, and re-read your file as those guidelines change. You buy the careful version once, and it stays current. You keep it either way.

Named services are described from their public product pages; features change and we don't speak for them. Cheaper isn't the problem. What "frozen the day you ran it" costs you three years later is.

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