About
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What is My Variant Coach?
Started by a mother who became a genomic researcher.
My Variant Coach is a genomic research and interpretation service that helps individuals and families better understand complex genetic findings.
As whole genome and exome sequencing become more widely available, many people receive results labeled negative or uncertain. Yet those same reports often contain rare variants that are still being studied by researchers.
My Variant Coach investigates those variants more deeply through research, family comparisons, and emerging genomic literature.
Genetic testing is designed to identify known disease-causing variants. When results fall outside those established categories, they are often classified as variants of uncertain significance or excluded from diagnostic reports.
This does not mean the data is meaningless.
Many rare variants are still being studied, and new disease mechanisms are discovered every year. Families are often left navigating complex genetic data without clear guidance on what it might mean.
My Variant Coach exists to help find and investigate those findings further.
The Gap in Genetic Testing
FOUNDER
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Myla Fairchild
Myla Fairchild brings over 14 years of experience in healthcare technology engineering, working with clinical systems, medical data infrastructure, and healthcare interoperability.
Her work has included integration engineering across healthcare platforms using standards such as HL7, FHIR, and DICOM, along with troubleshooting and analysis of complex medical data systems.
In recent years her work has focused on genomic research and variant interpretation, including:
• rare variant investigation
• family-based genomic comparisons
• literature-driven gene analysis
• variant reclassification research
Myla has submitted genetic findings to ClinVar, the NIH-supported public archive of relationships between human genetic variants and disease, with additional submissions currently in preparation.
Current research efforts include investigation of rare neuromuscular and mitochondrial-related variants, including analysis of novel findings in genes such as NIPA1, along with computational modeling and literature review to support future publications.
Through My Variant Coach, this research-driven approach is applied to help families explore complex genetic findings that may require deeper investigation.
WORK
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Selected Contributions
Research performed through My Variant Coach has contributed to the interpretation and investigation of rare genetic variants.
This work includes submissions to ClinVar, the NIH-supported public archive of relationships between genetic variants and human disease, along with ongoing analysis of rare and novel variants currently under investigation.
Recent contribution:
NDUFB11 frameshift variant (mitochondrial complex I deficiency)
ClinVar Submitter Accession: SCV007338475.1
Initial submission: January 30, 2026
Classification at submission: Variant of Uncertain Significance (VUS)
Inheritance pattern: X-linked
Additional variant research and modeling efforts are currently in development and may contribute to future publications.