Launch DNA testing inside your app
Terra API handles all lab operations out-of-the-box: Ship DNA kits to your users, track each sample's lab status and receive structured results like disease risk and traits.
From a sample at home to results in your app
One API call ships the kit, an accredited lab sequences the sample and a webhook tells you when the results are ready. Everything in between, from kit supply to physician ordering, happens on the Terra API side.
Order a kit with one API call
Send your user's details and the kit goes to their door with a prepaid return label. DNA is ordered through the same endpoint as every other test on the platform, so if you already order blood tests through Terra API, your code already covers DNA.
Follow every kit to the lab and back
Your user collects a sample at home, scans the QR code to activate the kit and posts it back. An accredited lab sequences the whole genome at up to 30x coverage, and each stage reaches your webhook, including a sample that fails quality control, so recollection starts without a support ticket.
Receive results as structured data
When the results-ready event arrives, the API gives you a short-lived link to one structured object per kit, covering carrier status, disease risk, clinical findings and traits. Each finding states how it was produced. Your user confirms they have seen their results in your product, a compliance step the platform requires, and serious findings carry an escalation level and a deadline so your team can route them to a clinician in time.
Carrier status, disease risk and clinical findings from one sample
Every result has the same JSON shape, whichever lab ran it. Each finding names its category, its method and its counseling flags, so your product knows how to present it without opening a lab PDF.
Carrier screening
More than 2,000 recessive conditions a user could pass to a child, including cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy and fragile X. Carriers are usually healthy, so these findings matter most to people planning a family, and each one carries a counseling flag.
Disease risk
Polygenic risk scores for common conditions such as breast cancer, osteoarthritis and ADHD, showing where a user sits relative to the population as screening-level context. Findings in sensitive areas such as mental health arrive flagged, so you can keep them behind an opt-in.
Clinical findings and traits
Single-gene variants that affect health directly, plus the heritable traits written in the genome. Each finding states the method behind it, so your product can present an observed variant differently from a statistical score.
Sequence a user once and build on it for years
Your users take one DNA test, and every feature you ship afterwards can read the same result alongside their wearable and blood data. When a report is updated, the new version arrives on the same webhook, so users see it without ordering a new kit.
Carrier status
Whether a user carries one of more than 2,000 recessive conditions they could pass to a child, from cystic fibrosis to fragile X, each with a counseling flag.
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Single-gene findings
Variants in a single gene with a clinical effect of their own, each flagged for counseling.
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Cancer risk
Polygenic risk for cancers such as breast cancer, read across many positions in the genome and reported as screening-level risk.
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Common condition risk
Polygenic risk for everyday conditions such as osteoarthritis and ADHD. Sensitive areas such as mental health arrive flagged, so your product can hold them behind an opt-in.
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Heritable traits
The traits written in a user's genome, in the same structured shape as every clinical finding so you can show them side by side.
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Medication response
Pharmacogenomics: how a user is likely to metabolise common medications, read from star alleles. Coming as a report bundle.
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Longevity
Genetic markers tied to healthy ageing and lifespan, reported as context for prevention and longevity programmes. Coming as a report bundle.
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Ancestry
Where a user's genome comes from, as population and regional ancestry. Coming as a report bundle.
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Epigenetics
Biological age and methylation markers from the same sample, delivered with interpretation. In beta. Which bundles an order returns depends on the variant you sell.
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Carrier status
Whether a user carries one of more than 2,000 recessive conditions they could pass to a child, from cystic fibrosis to fragile X, each with a counseling flag.
Read the docsSingle-gene findings
Variants in a single gene with a clinical effect of their own, each flagged for counseling.
Read the docsCancer risk
Polygenic risk for cancers such as breast cancer, read across many positions in the genome and reported as screening-level risk.
Read the docsCommon condition risk
Polygenic risk for everyday conditions such as osteoarthritis and ADHD. Sensitive areas such as mental health arrive flagged, so your product can hold them behind an opt-in.
Read the docsHeritable traits
The traits written in a user's genome, in the same structured shape as every clinical finding so you can show them side by side.
Read the docsMedication response
Pharmacogenomics: how a user is likely to metabolise common medications, read from star alleles. Coming as a report bundle.
Read the docsLongevity
Genetic markers tied to healthy ageing and lifespan, reported as context for prevention and longevity programmes. Coming as a report bundle.
Read the docsAncestry
Where a user's genome comes from, as population and regional ancestry. Coming as a report bundle.
Read the docsEpigenetics
Biological age and methylation markers from the same sample, delivered with interpretation. In beta. Which bundles an order returns depends on the variant you sell.
Read the docsWhat comes back from a single sample
Whole genome sequencing at up to 30x coverage and over 99.9% accuracy, run in CLIA-certified, CAP-accredited labs, with every finding in one supplier-neutral structure.
- Cystic fibrosis carrier status
- Breast cancer risk
- Sequence variants
- Spinal muscular atrophy
- Osteoarthritis risk
- Copy number analysis
- Fragile X
- ADHD risk
- Repeat expansions
- 2,000+ carrier conditions
- and more…
