@Valentijn and
@FightingCFS,
Yes, that's it exactly, Valentijn.
For example-- in this post, nandixon lists the alleles associated with inflammation from vitamin E:
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/inde...-to-inflammatory-cytokines.19377/#post-556000
"TNF rs361525
GG = pro-inflammatory (increases TNF-α)
AG = anti-inflammatory (decreases TNF-α)
(AA is rare)"
But LiveWello shows the rs361525 GG variant as "-/-" or green (favorable) on all its reports. For this SNP, the best versions to have (at least as far as vitamin E is concerned) are the rarer AG or AA alleles. So the red/yellow/green colors shown on the report don't reflect the true effect of this SNP.
https://livewello.com/library/vitamin-e-pro-inflammatory-snps?author=momhill
The red/yellow/green color coding system on LiveWello and elsewhere just isn't always helpful. In some cases a rare SNP allele is beneficial. In other cases, a SNP variant would be positive in some situations, but negative in others... for example, with SNPs influencing cholesterol metabolism, SNPs leading to low plasma cholesterol should be green from the perspective of heart disease, but red when evaluating the risk of stroke and depression.
It would be great to be able to choose the color (red/yellow/green) for each template. Most of the time the rare variant is the negative one, but not always.