About DNA Checker
A DNA file is one of the few things you can own that says something permanent about you. It is reasonable to want to know who is on the other end before you send it anywhere — so this page says who we are, how we are paid, and what we deliberately do not claim.
- Operator
- CheckDNA Ltd
- Status
- Incorporation in progress
- Registration number
- Pending incorporation
- Country of incorporation
- Pending incorporation
- Registered address
- Pending incorporation
- Website
- dnachecker.xyz
- Contact
- privacy@dnachecker.xyz
Registration details appear here the day they are issued. We would rather show you an incomplete entry than a page that never mentions the question.
Who is behind DNA Checker?
DNA Checker is operated by CheckDNA Ltd, a company currently completing incorporation. We run no laboratory and we are not owned by, or affiliated with, any of the services that sell DNA kits. The registration number and registered address will be published here as soon as they are issued.
That independence matters more than it sounds. The company that sold you a kit has a commercial reason to keep your interpretation inside its own product. We have no kit to sell and no upgrade to route you towards, which means the honest answer — including "your file cannot show that" — costs us nothing.
How does DNA Checker make money?
Analysis is free during early access, so today it makes nothing and collects no payment details. What it will never do is sell genetic data, share it with insurers, employers or advertisers, or add it to a research database. Those are commitments, not preferences we could quietly revise.
It is a fair question to ask of anything free, and the uncomfortable answer in this industry is usually that the data is the product. It is not here. There is no advertising on this site, no behavioural tracking, and no third party receiving your file.
Why does DNA Checker exist?
Most people who bought a DNA kit got an ancestry breakdown and little else, while the same file also carries markers relevant to medicines, carrier status, nutrition and fitness. That information is sitting unread on their hard drive. We read it against open research and hand back what it supports — and what it does not.
The pharmacogenomics case is the clearest one. Well-studied genes change how people process common medicines, the relevant markers are already in most consumer files, and almost none of those services report them.
See the six categories we read →
Is DNA Checker a medical service?
No. We read a file you already own and tell you what published research says about the markers in it. We run no laboratory and perform no clinical procedure, and what we send you is not a diagnosis or a substitute for advice from a qualified healthcare professional. It is informational and educational.
If something in a report concerns you, the next step is a clinician who knows your history — and for anything with a family history behind it, sequencing ordered through a clinic rather than an array. Consumer files are a starting point for a conversation, not the end of one.
Who checks what DNA Checker publishes?
Everything we publish rests on named public sources — ClinVar, gnomAD, the GWAS Catalog, CPIC and PharmGKB — and our methodology page shows how a marker gets from one of them into a report. No clinician currently reviews this site, which is precisely why every reading is framed as an interpretation rather than advice.
We would rather state that plainly than imply a review process we do not have. It is also why the language throughout is careful: we describe what research supports, we name the source, and we say when your file cannot answer the question.
How we turn published research into a report →