Best Practice
EMQN Home Page
EMQN News Page
About Us
Joining EMQN
EQA
Scheme Info
Mutation Nomenclature

BEST PRACTICE

Harmonisation of testing practice through best practice

EMQN is actively promoting 'best practice' meetings on individual diseases. To assist in this process, EMQN has organised best practice meetings. To participate you must be a registered member of the network. Following the meeting, draft best practice guidelines are produced and publised on this and other related websites, for example, the web site of the UK Clinical Molecular Genetics Society (CMGS).

2008 best practice meetings

The EMQN in conjunction with EuroGentest is organising two best practice meetings in 2008. The aim will be to draft new best practice guidelines or update existing ones for molecular genetics testing. The meetings will develop or update best practice guidelines for the following 2 diseases:

Cardiac Genetics
Myotonic Dystrophy (DM)

Both meetings are taking place in Autumn and the registration will open shortly.

Call for participants for two best practice meetings in 2008

We are pleased to announce two meetings to produce or revise best practice guidelines for clinical molecular genetic testing. The meetings are organised by EuroGentest / EMQN and supported by CanGeneTest.

EuroGentest / EMQN will fund travel and accomodation for a maximum of one delegate from each European Union Country. Delegates from non EU countries must be self funded. The mechanism for selecting delegates will be via the EMQN National Partners but delegates must be able to represent the relevant molecular genetic diagnostic community in their country and must be prepared to report back to that community preferably through a national level meeting to discuss the draft guidelines.

>> Spinocerebellar ataxia's (SCA) best practice meeting 2007

Date: 18 / 19th October 2007

Venue: Oporto, Portugal

Organiser: Prof Jorge Sequeiros, Oporto, Portugal

Local Organiser: Dr Luís Correia

Closing date for registration: 14th September 2007

>> Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer (BRCA) best practice meeting 2007

Date: 25th October 2007

Venue: Wuerzburg, Germany

Organiser: Prof Ulf Kristofferson, Lund, Sweden

Local Organiser: Dr Nina Larsen, Lund, Sweden / Prof Clemens Mueller, Wurzburg, Germany

Closing date for registration: 21st September 2007

Best Practice Guidelines

Disease-specific best practice guidelines resulting from meetings organised by EMQN can be downloaded from the list below:

» Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (2001) – PDF-File, 103.7 KB

» Fragile-X Syndrome (2006) – PDF-File, 507.1 KB

» Friedreich Ataxia (2000) – PDF-File, 93.6 KB

» Haemoglobinopathies (2002) – PDF-File, 252.4 KB

» Hereditary Sensory and Motor Neuropathies (2006) – PDF-File, 237.9 KB

» Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young (MODY) – PDF-File, 178.6 KB

» Prader-Willi / Angelman Syndromes (2002) – PDF-File, 227.4 KB

» Retinoblastoma (2002) – PDF-File, 91.9 KB

» Spinal Muscular Atrophy (2001) – PDF-File, 69.2 KB

» Y Chromosome Microdeletions – PDF-File, 136.2 KB

Non disease-specific best practice guidelines resulting from meetings organsied by EMQN.

» Internal Quality Control (2002) – PDF-File, 82.0 KB

Other best practice guidelines can be found on the websites of the UK Clinical Molecular Genetics Society (UK CMGS) and the Swiss Society of Medical Genetics (SSMG)

dHPLC (CMGS, 2004)
DNA Sequencing (CMGS, 2003)
Fragile-X Syndrome (CMGS, 2005)
Haemophilia A (CMGS, 2006)
Haemophilia B (CMGS, 2005)
Hereditary Haemochromatosis (CMGS, 2006)
Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colon Cancer (CMGS, 2003)
Internal Quality Control (CMGS, 2004)
Mitochondrial DNA (CMGS, 2004)
QF-PCR (CMGS, 2005)
Reporting (SSGM, 2003)


Designed, built and maintained by Certus Technology Associates Limited.	Copyright 2002-2005 EMQN.
Send mail to support@emqn.org with questions or comments about this web site.