Improvement of technical and analytical performance in DNA sequencing by external quality assessment-based molecular training

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2072-2078

  Dorn Beineke, Alexandra ^a   Ahmad Nejad, Parviz ^a   Pfeiffer, Ulrike ^a   Ramsden, Simon ^b   Pazzagli, Mario ^c   Neumaier, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT BASED MOLECULAR TRAINING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

EUROPEAN UNION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 33750451245     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2006.072405     Document Type: Article

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