In addition to medication interactions and actionable disease risks, ActX also checks Carrier Status for a number of different diseases.

Carriers have a genetic variant that can be passed down to their offspring, but normally do not have the disease. Carriers usually only have one copy of the genetic variant and for most carried diseases it takes two copies to develop the disease. This is known as recessive inheritance. However, when two carriers of a disease have children together, there is a chance that the child could inherit both disease-causing variants from their parents and develop the disease.

ActX is currently checking carrier status for over 200 diseases, including cystic fibrosis and Tay-Sachs. You can see your Carrier Status on the Carrier Status tab of your Genomic Profile.