I’m not familiar with UBIOME and will have to research that. I discovered some things positive and potentially negative that I am making projects around.
Most if not all of the gene testing services will let you have access to the raw data file. Then you can run them through whatever SNP analysis service you want.
Prometheus has a sample report that you can look at. You can go way deep. But the sheer number of genes (SNPs) reported back, both good, uncertain and potentially bad is large and requires a strategy for you to examine and decide what is significant and what is not.
Note that the promethease report for your file can be downloaded and it works just like the demo. I really like that. I will probably run a promethease.com report every couple of years since the SNP database changes over time.
You need to consider if you inform your doctor of anything in the report. There is a general note of caution in the gene testing community about insurance companies and what they might do eventually do in terms of treatment if they know you are predisposed to certain disease states.
I talked to my PCP about this being off-the-record and she agreed. We had a verbal conversation and she also said, “don’t give me anything in writing because you want to keep this out of your medical records until at least you are on Medicare.”
So we talked a little and I did not share anything in writing. She agreed to take zero notes.
Good Luck.
