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Quality control

Customer satisfaction survey to improve the European cystic fibrosis external quality assessment schemeExit this website
Sarah Berwouts, Elisabeth Dequeker, Clin Chem Lab Med., June 2011

Multiallelic Synthetic Quality Control Material: Lessons Learned from the Cystic Fibrosis External Quality Assessment SchemeExit this website
Berwouts S, Christensen TM, Brandon J, Bejjani BA, Barton DE, Dequeker E., Genet Test Mol Biomarkers., April 2011

Evaluation and use of a synthetic quality control material, included in the European external quality assessment scheme for cystic fibrosis Exit this website
Sarah Berwouts, Joan T. Gordon, Clark A. Rundell, David E. Barton, Elisabeth Dequeker, Human Mutation Volume 29, Issue 8, Pages 1063-1070, August 2008

Best practice guidelines for molecular genetic diagnosis of cystic fibrosis and CFTR-related disorders – updated European recommendations Exit this website
Els Dequeker, Manfred Stuhrmann, Michael A Morris, Teresa Casals, Carlo Castellani,Mireille Claustres, Harry Cuppens, Marie Des Georges, Claude Ferec, Milan Macek, Pier-Franco Pignatti, Hans Scheffer, Marianne Schwartz, Michal Witt, Martin Schwarz and Emmanuelle Girodon, European Journal of Human Genetics, August 2008

OECD Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Molecular Genetic Testing in EnglishDownload PDF Document and FrenchDownload PDF Document
OECD , 2007

Technical Standards and Guidelines for CFTR Mutation Testing Exit this website
ACMG , 2006 edition

Quality control in molecular genetic testing Exit this website
Dequeker et al. , Nature Reviews Genetics, 2001, 2, 717-723

Genetic testing and quality control in diagnostic laboratories Exit this website
Dequeker E, Cassiman J-J , Nature Genetics, 2000, 25, 259-260

Recommendations for quality improvement in genetic testing for cystic fibrosis Exit this website
Dequeker et al. , European Journal of Human Genetics, 2000, 8, S2-S24 

Evaluation of CFTR gene mutation testing methods in 136 diagnostic laboratories: report of a large European external quality assessment Exit this website
Dequeker E, Cassiman J-J , European Journal of Human Genetics, 1998, 6, 165 -175

A quality control study of CFTR mutation screening in 40 different European laboratories
Cuppens H, Cassiman J-J , European Journal of Human Genetics, 1995, 3, 235-245



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