Independent.
Board-certified. Accessible.
Grey Genetics was founded to provide a platform for qualified genetic counselors to offer their services directly to patients — making expert genetic counseling available everywhere.
The Grey Genetics model
New technologies have made genetic testing quick and cheap — when it's done at scale. Interpreting the results, however, remains a challenge. Even when genetic data is well characterized and has the potential to meaningfully inform preventive care, lack of effective communication around genetic test results represents a real barrier to Precision Medicine. Testing and data processing scale; conversation does not. Grey Genetics was founded to provide that conversation.
The Network model
Grey Genetics is not a solo practice. We operate a Network of independent genetic counselors — each with their own clinical background and specialty focus. You review profiles and choose the genetic counselor whose expertise fits your situation.
Privacy by design
All appointments are self-pay, so we don't report to insurers. You choose if and when to involve your insurance. Your consultation notes go to you, shared only at your discretion.
No financial incentives
Our recommendations are based on your situation and our clinical experience, not on which lab is paying for the consultation. This is rarer than you'd think in genetics.
Genetics is rarely black and white.
Marketing materials about genetic testing are relentlessly cheery. Headlines refer to "the gene for ___." Yet results are often uncertain. Risks are probabilistic. Decisions are personal. The name Grey Genetics is a nod to that complexity.
As it happens, the two spellings of the same word — gray and grey — illustrate a real genetic phenomenon: different DNA sequences can produce identical outcomes. Our genomes are 99.5% identical, yet that remaining 0.5% spans 15 million base pairs. It's complicated. So is our work.
Meet the Founder
Eleanor Griffith, MS, CGC
Board-certified genetic counselor. Founder of Grey Genetics.
Eleanor's clinical experience includes both prenatal and cancer genetics, in both public and private academic hospital settings. She has also worked for genetic testing companies, including Phosphorus, an innovative Manhattan-based startup, and Myriad Genetics, the first company to commercialize hereditary cancer testing. In both roles, she provided clinical genetics support to physicians, genetic counselors and other healthcare providers.
When Eleanor began thinking about providing direct-to-patient services, she looked for an existing platform she could join — and couldn't find one. Grey Genetics grew out of that gap: a platform designed to let board-certified genetic counselors offer their services directly to patients, without the overhead of building a solo practice from scratch.
Genetic testing has the potential to meaningfully inform clinical care for many conditions — yet evidence-based testing goes underutilized at every level of the healthcare system, from primary care to specialist referral. Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome, Lynch Syndrome, Familial Hypercholesterolemia, and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy are among the most glaring examples: each is designated a Tier 1 genomic application by the CDC's Office of Public Health Genomics, meaning the evidence for clinical utility is strong and has been for decades. Most people who meet criteria remain unidentified. Closing that gap — for these conditions and others — is part of what Grey Genetics is here to do.
Meet the Grey Genetics Network
Browse profiles of our genetic counselors and find the one whose expertise fits your situation.
Meet Our Genetic Counselors