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Quality Issues in Clinical Genetic Services pp 287–296Cite as

External Quality Assessment in Molecular Genetic Testing

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• Approaches to organising EQA schemes

• Assessment of laboratory performance

• Feedback and learning lessons from EQA

• Future of EQA in molecular genetics

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  1. Regional Molecular Genetics Laboratory, European Molecular Genetics Quality Network, St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, M13 9WL, UK

    Rob Elles & Outi Kämäräinen

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Dept. Clinical Genetics, University of Lund, Lund, 221 85, Sweden

    Ulf Kristoffersson

  2. Zentrum Kinderheilkunde, Inst. Humangenetik, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH), Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, Hannover, 30625, Germany

    Jörg Schmidtke

  3. Center f. Human Genetics, Lab. For. Gen. & Mol. Arch., University of Leuven, Kapucijenvoer 33, Leuven, 3000, Belgium

    J. J. Cassiman

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Elles, R., Kämäräinen, O. (2010). External Quality Assessment in Molecular Genetic Testing. In: Kristoffersson, U., Schmidtke, J., Cassiman, J. (eds) Quality Issues in Clinical Genetic Services. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3919-4_29

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