Season's greetings and best wishes for 2014 from the EuroGentest team.

What is EuroGentest?

EuroGentest is a project funded by the European Commission to harmonize the process of genetic testing, from sampling to counseling, across Europe. The ultimate goal is to ensure that all aspects of genetic testing are of high quality thereby providing accurate and reliable results for the benefit of the patients. More...

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Genetic Laboratories

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Patients, Public & Policy

Events by EuroGentest and Others

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19 Mar 2014 - 25 th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Human genetics

20 Mar 2014 - PerMediCon - Create the Future of Health

27 Apr 2014 - Human Genome Meeting 2014

07 May 2014 - NGS 2014 Dundee: Exomes, Genomes & Transcriptomes in Clinical Diagnostics

Workshops Prepare for accreditation or improve your current quality management system by participating in our interactive workshops.	Clinical Utility Gene Cards Clear and concise documents with good practice information for disease specific genetic tests.
Patient Leaflets Download leaflets with information on genetic testing for patients and their family in your own language.	Newsletters Monthly highlights of news and events on quality and genetic testing.

News by EuroGentest and Others

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Two major publications of the GenTEE report and CAPABILITY country reports
16 Dec 2013

The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) published the final report of the GENTEE project, entitled "Genetic Testing in Emerging Economies", which represents the first worldwide effort to systematically survey and assess the current state of medical genetic services in emerging... More...

Draft NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy
16 Dec 2013

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is seeking public comments on the draft Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) Policy that promotes sharing, for research purposes, of large-scale human and nonhuman genomic1data generated from NIH-supported and NIH-conducted research. More...

German policy documents on the regulation of genetic testing
30 May 2013

In April 2013, two policy documents on the regulation of genetic services have been issues in Germany, one by the German Ethics Council and one by the Genetic Diagnostics Commission. The first one expresses recommendations on genetic diagnosis in general, firstly for improvement of the provision of... More...

ACMG guidelines for genetic counselling
30 May 2013

Click here to read a comment written by Heather Skirton on the ACMG (American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics) guidelines. More...