EQUAL-quant: An international external quality assessment scheme for real-time PCR

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1584-1591

  Ramsden, Simon C ^a   Daly, Sarah ^b   Geilenkeuser, Wolf Jochen ^c   Duncan, Graeme ^d   Hermitte, Fabienne ^d   Marubini, Ettore ^e   Neumaier, Michael ^f   Orlando, Claudio ^g   Palicka, Vladimir ^h   Paradiso, Angelo ⁱ   Pazzagli, Mario ^g   Pizzamiglio, Sara ^j   Verderio, Paolo ^j  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c DGKL Reference Institute for Bioanalytics   (Germany)

^d Ipsogen SA   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^h CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

ⁱ NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE GIOVANNI PAOLO II   (Italy)

^j NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; REAGENT; RNA; TAQ POLYMERASE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; EQUAL QUANT PROGRAM; EUROPEAN UNION; EVALUATION; EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HUMAN; LABORATORY; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA EXTRACTION; STANDARD;

EUROPEAN UNION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-ABL; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 33746660211     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2005.066019     Document Type: Article

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