Overview

Do you want to connect with others who have your variant?

Do you want to link your family trees?

Do you want to help your relatives get medical testing for your variant?

ConnectMyVariant can help you get started. There are multiple ways to find and help relatives. Rather than offering a single strategy, ConnectMyVariant provides different avenues of informing your family, or even people distantly related to you, of the possible inherited risk of disease. Sign up to meet others with your variant or get personal help from a family outreach navigator.

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ConnectMyVariant provides free individual assistance through volunteer Variant Champions and Family Outreach Navigators.

We also have several video and text guides on how to spread awareness amongst your relatives about inherited disease risk. In general, the goal is to find relatives who may have your variant and share information about disease risk so that they can get genetic testing and prevention. This can be done with close family members, distant relatives, DNA relatives you find through ancestry testing, or even anyone on the internet using forums to connect about variants. Below is a list of guides provided by this site.

• Talk to Your Family About Disease Risk

• Help Others Get Tested

• Connect with Distant Relatives

• Find Genetic Relatives Using DNA

• Communicate with Genetic Relatives

• Post your Variant Online

ConnectMyVariant also provides supplementary informational resources to aid in these connections and conversations. These resources may be used to aid you in your connections, or to provide relatives with more information about genetic variants, inherited disease risk, and reasons to continue connecting about genetic variants.

• Why Connect?

• Understand Your Variant

• Inherited vs. Non-inherited Cancer Risk

• Index of Variant Forums

• Frequently Asked Questions

Further Questions?

The ConnectMyVariant team is committed to helping you connect with your family and relatives about your variant. Please do not hesitate to contact us or sign-up to get more support in your family outreach process.