What Whole Genome Sequencing Costs in the UK

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When to get help today

Nothing on this page is urgent care. If you have chest pain, breathlessness at rest, or you lose consciousness without warning, call 999 or go to your nearest emergency department today.

Sudden cardiac death before 40 in a close relative is a reason to be assessed quickly rather than a reason to wait for a sequencing appointment. Tell us when you enquire and we bring the cardiology assessment forward and run the sequencing alongside it.

Where the ceiling sits

Read the top of the private market first, because a genome is bought against that rather than against a laboratory kit. People compare a five figure decision with the other five figure decisions in front of them, and the range below is where those sit today.

Comprehensive private imaging programmes in London publish figures above £32,000. Longevity memberships have been reported at £25,000 a year, with press coverage of a £54,000 bracket. Harley Street multi-day executive programmes reach £14,000. Echelon Health publishes £2,000 to more than £15,000 depending on the scan list. Private hospital executive tiers run £3,500 to £8,000, and Cleveland Clinic London publishes £5,500 for its executive assessment. All figures read September 2026.

Two things follow. A whole genome is a smaller purchase than most of that list. It is also the only one on the list that is bought once, because the same three billion letters are read again every year without a second sample.

What the cheapest tier leaves out

Dante Labs lists a 30x whole genome at €399, about £340, on dantelabs.com. Sequencing.com lists $379, and SelfDecode and Nucleus both list $399. All read 8 September 2026. Those laboratories do sequence a whole genome, and the letters they read are the same letters.

Describe that tier by what it omits rather than by what it charges. There is no examination. No registered genetic counsellor speaks to you before the sample or after the result. Interpretation is automated against an undisclosed gene list rather than a named version of a named clinical list. No doctor writes a plan into a record. Nothing happens if a variant of uncertain significance appears, and nobody re reads the file next year when the evidence has moved.

Cheap here is a different product at a lower price, not the same product at a lower price. If the automated report is what you want, buy it knowingly.

What we charge, and what each tier holds

Highest first, every figure a starting price, and every one of them resolved from the catalogue the checkout charges from rather than typed onto this page. What separates the three is how many people are covered, what is interpreted, and how long the file keeps being read.

Family Genome, from £29,995 for four people. Everything in Genome and Medicines for four, family segregation where a finding appears, and a named family physician for the year.

Genome and Medicines, from £9,995. Everything in Genome, plus a full pharmacogenomic report against the CPIC and DPWG guidelines, polygenic risk for coronary disease on the 2025 European Society of Cardiology position, an annual doctor review for three years, and a genome read again every year for life.

Genome, from £4,995. A 30x whole genome in a laboratory accredited to ISO 15189, interpreted against the ACMG secondary findings list at version 3.3, a registered genetic counsellor before and after, a doctor who writes the plan into your record, three yearly re reads, and the raw data as yours.

The London Genetics Centre publishes the same figure as our first tier, for whole genome sequencing with a medical examination, pre counselling, additional genetic panels and a 30 minute post result consultation with a consultant geneticist, on thelondongeneticscentre.com, read 8 September 2026. We meet that figure rather than undercut it, and what ours adds is the named list version, the pharmacogenomics, the yearly re read without a second sample and a record the clinic already holds.

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What you can do before you spend anything

Write your family history down before you speak to anybody. It is the one preparation that changes what any doctor does with any result, it takes an evening, and it is worth having whether or not you ever buy a genome from us or from anyone else.

Three generations. Grandparents, parents and their brothers and sisters, then your own generation. For each one, the age they are now or the age they died, and what they died of. Heart disease, stroke, cancer with the organ named, sudden death, anything neurological. Anything that happened before 50 carries far more information than anything that happened after 70. That single page changes what a doctor does with any result and it costs nothing.

Then ask any provider, including us, these eight questions. Is the laboratory accredited to ISO 15189. Is the read depth 30x or higher. Which named list is the report written against, and which version of it. Does a registered genetic counsellor speak to me before the sample and after the result. Does a doctor write the plan into a record I can see. What happens when a variant of uncertain significance appears. Is the file re read, how often, and at what price. Can I download my raw data and have it deleted.

Do not buy a genome to answer a question a blood test answers this week. If the question is your cholesterol today, measure your cholesterol today.

The result that argues against buying a report

A general health check on its own does not lower mortality, across 251,891 people in the 2019 Cochrane review by Krogsbøll and colleagues. It is the most inconvenient finding in this whole field and any page selling you a health purchase should print it.

That finding is about checks rather than about genomes, and it is the strongest argument in the literature against paying for information nobody acts on. It is the reason a genome here is attached to a counsellor, a doctor and a written plan rather than sold as a report. A provider who quotes you a price for a file and nothing else is selling the half of this that the evidence is least kind to.

What we would do

One. A conversation with a registered genetic counsellor before anything is taken, so you decide what you want to know before you can know it. Nothing is charged for that conversation.

Two. Saliva at home or a blood draw in Marylebone, sequenced at 30x in a laboratory accredited to ISO 15189.

Three. The result read with a doctor, the plan written into your record, and the file read again as the evidence moves.

Start with the first conversation

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Questions people ask

How much does whole genome sequencing cost in the UK? It runs from about £340 for a direct to consumer 30x kit with an automated report to the top of the London clinical range for a genome with counselling, a doctor and a record. The Wellness prices three tiers from £4,995, with Genome and Medicines at £9,995 and Family Genome at £29,995 for four people.

Why is a £340 consumer kit not the same as a clinical whole genome? The sequencing is comparable. What differs is who reads it, which named list it is read against, who explains it, whether a doctor acts on it, and whether anyone reads the file again next year. Dante Labs lists €399, about £340, read 8 September 2026, and that price includes none of those five.

Is a whole genome cheaper than a private health assessment? Often. Private hospital executive tiers run £3,500 to £8,000 and Cleveland Clinic London publishes £5,500 for its executive assessment, both read September 2026. A genome is bought once and read repeatedly, while an assessment is bought again every year.

Does the price include the genetic counsellor? Yes, before the sample and after the result, in every tier. Genetic counselling bought on its own is published at £175 an hour by Genetic Experts, with London Pregnancy Clinic at £140 for 60 minutes and Innermost at £250, all read 8 September 2026.

Is there a yearly fee after the first payment? No. The yearly re read is inside the price. Genome carries three years of re reading, and Genome and Medicines and Family Genome carry it for life, without a second sample.

What happens if you find something? The counsellor sees you again and a doctor takes it from there, into the specialist clinic the finding points at. Around 6% of people carry a finding on the ACMG list that changes what a doctor does, more often cardiovascular than cancer, on a cohort of 3,972 exomes read against version 3.3 of that list, Genetics in Medicine, 2025.

Can you use raw data I already have from another provider? We can look at it and we will tell you honestly what it does and does not cover, but we do not build a clinical plan on a file we did not commission and cannot audit. Read depth, coverage gaps and variant calling all differ.

Do you charge for the first conversation? No. The counsellor's first conversation is not charged, it does not commit you to a sample, and a fair number of them end with a recommendation to wait or to do something cheaper instead. You decide afterwards, with the price of each tier and what it holds in front of you.

Message us before you decide, or call 020 3951 3429.

This page is information and not a diagnosis. Sequencing does not replace examination, history or blood work, and no result guarantees an outcome. Prices are published starting figures and are confirmed before anything is taken. If you are unwell today, see a doctor today. In an emergency call 999.

References

Krogsbøll LT, et al. General health checks in adults for reducing morbidity and mortality from disease. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2019. 10.1002/14651858.CD009009.pub3

American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics. Recommendations for reporting of secondary findings in clinical exome and genome sequencing, ACMG SF v3.3. Genetics in Medicine, 2025.

European Society of Cardiology. Clinical consensus statement on polygenic risk scores in cardiovascular disease. European Heart Journal, 2025.

Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium. Published gene and drug guidelines, cpicpgx.org, read 8 September 2026.

Dutch Pharmacogenetics Working Group. Pharmacogenetic recommendations, read 8 September 2026.

ISO 15189:2022. Medical laboratories, requirements for quality and competence. International Organization for Standardization.

The London Genetics Centre. Published whole genome sequencing price, thelondongeneticscentre.com, read 8 September 2026.

Dante Labs. Published 30x whole genome list price, dantelabs.com, read 8 September 2026.

Genetic Experts. Published genetic counselling session price, geneticexperts.co.uk, read 8 September 2026.

Cleveland Clinic London. Published executive health assessment price, read September 2026.

Echelon Health. Published assessment price range, read September 2026.