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- American Association of Clinical
Chemistry (AACC)
AACC is an international scientific/medical society of clinical
laboratory professionals, physicians, research scientists and other
laboratory science-related disciplines.
- American
College of Medical Genetics (ACMG)
ACMG provides education, resources and a voice for the medical
genetics profession. ACMG promotes the development and
implementation of methods to diagnose, treat and prevent genetic
disease to make genetic services available to and improve the health
of the public. Several policy, recommendation, and consensus
statements have been drafted by the ACMG addressing a variety of
laboratory issues.
- Association of Molecular
Pathology (AMP)
AMP represents and unifies practitioners of molecular pathology. It
promotes clinical practice, basic research, and education.
- Association of Public Health
Laboratories (APHL)
APHL plans, coordinates and integrates the global expertise of its
members to help promote improvement in public health laboratory
practice worldwide. APHL continues to address a number of laboratory
issues surrounding newborn screening and genetics.
- American Type Culture Collection
(ATCC)
ATCC is a global nonprofit bio-resource center that provides
biological products, technical services, and educational programs to
private industry, government, and academic organizations around the
world. This resource acquires, authenticates, preserves, develops,
and distributes biological materials, information, technology,
intellectual property, and standards for the advancement,
validation, and application of scientific knowledge.
- College of American Pathology
(CAP)
CAP is a medical society serving more than 15,000 physician members
and the laboratory community throughout the world. It is the world's
largest association composed exclusively of pathologists and is
widely considered the leader in providing laboratory quality
improvement programs including those that specifically target
laboratories offering genetic testing.
- Coriell Institute for Medical
Research
The Coriell Cell Repositories (non-profit) are supported by
federal and other funds to provide essential research reagents to
the scientific community by establishing, maintaining, and
distributing cell cultures and DNA derived from cell cultures.
- European Collection of Cell
Cultures (ECCC)
ECCC is an international cell repository whose holding include cell
lines and DNA. Within this collection, more than 750 genetic
disorders are represented. The repository serves industry and the
academic research community. The collection is supported from a
combination of sources, including the UK Research Councils (MRC,
BBSRC, NERC), the Commission of the European Communities and the
World Health Organization, together with revenue from sales and the
provision of technical services.
- European Directory of
DNA Diagnostic Laboratories (EDDNAL)
EDDNAL is a non-profit registry that provides a directory of
European laboratories and clinics providing diagnostic services for
heritable syndromes and disorders. Statistics are available for
clinicians, healthcare policymakers, and other qualified
individuals.
- European Molecular Quality Network
(EMQN)
The EMQN seeks to raise and maintain the standards of diagnostic
clinical molecular genetics testing in the European Union through
the provision of standard external quality assessment schemes and
development of best practice protocols.
- GeneClinics
GeneClinics is a clinical information resource relating genetic
testing to the diagnosis, management and genetic counseling of
individuals and families with specific inherited disorders.
Disease-specific information is provided along with useful links to
educational material and policy statements from professional
organizations.
- GeneTests
GeneTests is a genetic testing resource that includes a medical
genetics laboratory directory (inclusion is voluntary), a
genetics clinic directory (primarily US laboratories), an
introduction to genetic counseling and testing concepts, and a
PowerPoint slideshow presentation for genetics professionals.
- National Newborn
Screening and Genetics Resource Committee (NNSGRC)
The National Newborn Screening and Genetics Resource Center (NNSGRC)
is a cooperative agreement between the Maternal and Child Health
Bureau (MCHB), Genetic Services Branch and the University of Texas
Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA), Department of
Pediatrics. It provides information and resources in the area of
newborn screening and genetics to benefit health professionals, the
public health community, consumers and government officials.
- Newborn
Screening Quality Assurance Program, CDC (NSQAP)
The Clinical Biochemistry Branch, Division of Laboratory Sciences,
operates the Newborn Screening Quality Assurance Program (NSQAP).
NSQAP is a voluntary, non-regulatory program to help state health
departments and their laboratories maintain and enhance the quality
of test results. The program is operated in partnership with the
Association of Public Health Laboratories.
- NCCLS
NCCLS is a globally recognized, voluntary consensus
standards-developing organization that enhances the value of medical
testing within the healthcare community through the development and
dissemination of standards, guidelines, and best practices. Several
guidelines are relevant to the provision of genetic testing
services.
- National Office of Public Health Genomics, CDC (NOPHG)
This site provides updated information on how human genomic discoveries can
be used to improve health & prevent disease. NOPHG also sponsors the Human
Genome Epidemiology Network (HuGENet™),
a global collaboration of
individuals and organizations committed to the assessment of the impact of
human genome variation on population health and how genetic information can
be used to improve health and prevent disease.
- UCSDW3BG:
World-Wide Web Biochemical Genetics Test List
This resource provides a searchable database of laboratories (inclusion
is voluntary) offering a variety of biochemical genetic tests.
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Workforce Development
The Office of Workforce Policy and Planning was created as the
organizational locus for external workforce development activities
within CDC/ATSDR (a recommendation of the CDC/ATSDR Strategic Plan for
Public Health Workforce Development, 2000). The Office seeks to improve
the ability of public health workers, nation-wide, to perform the
essential services of public health and to prepare the workforce to
respond to current and emerging health threats.
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Training for the Laboratory Worker
This site includes the major organizations involved in graduate
training in human genetics and provides career information, a guide to
graduate and postgraduate training and medical school curricula.
The ABP offers primary certification through three routes: combined
anatomic pathology and clinical pathology, anatomic pathology only,
and clinical pathology only. Subspecialty certificates are offered.
This certification examination in molecular diagnostics is designed
to test knowledge of principles, concepts, methodologies, and usage of
molecular biology techniques as applied to the clinical laboratory.
Information about education programs, certification programs and
requirements, continuing education opportunities, protocol manuals,
training guides, certification study guides, and professional
publications.
The National Credentialing Agency for Laboratory Personnel, Inc. (NCA)
conducts certification of medical laboratory personnel and other
credential-related activities.
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Policy
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State Regulations
- The State of New York State, through its Clinical
Laboratory Evaluation Program (CLEP), regulates and monitors the
quality of clinical laboratory testing, including genetic testing,
conducted both by in-state laboratories and out-of-state facilities
that accept clinical specimens obtained in New York State.
Voluntary Laboratory Standards for Genetic Testing
Recommendations for Genetic Testing in US
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This page last reviewed: 10/18/2006
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