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10 Dec 2008 - International Conference on Human Rights and Biomedicine

Rotterdam (NL) More...

03 Dec 2008 - Genomics in the Policy Room

4th International Corsage Winter Meeting 2008
Nijmegen (NL) More...

28 Nov 2008 - 1st Golden Helix Symposium on ‘Copy Number Variation and Genomic Alterations in Health and Disease’

Athens (GR) More...

20 Nov 2008 - EUGT General Assembly

Leuven (BE) More...EuroGentest event

18 Nov 2008 - Train The Trainer Workshop (WP1.8)

Heverlee (BE) More...EuroGentest event

14 Nov 2008 - Best practice meeting Duchene and Becker muscular dystropies

The Best Practice will convene experienced/senior laboratory staff members with the aim of reviewing the available diagnostic techniques and protocols and updating laboratory guidelines.
Amsterdam (NL) More...

11 Nov 2008 - Annual Meeting of the ASHG

Philadelphia (US) More...

04 Nov 2008 - Problems with Microarrays (and how to shoot them!)

A day filled with technical tips that didn't make it to the manuals yet
Hertfordshire (GB) More...

31 Oct 2008 - Diagnostic Molecular Genetics Best Practice Meeting: Myotonic Dystrophy (DM)

Nijmegen (NL) More...EuroGentest event

29 Oct 2008 - Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP)

Grapevine, Texas (US) More...

24 Oct 2008 - 27th NSGC Annual Education Conference

Los Angeles (US) More...

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Newsarchive 2008

The Cyprus Society of Human Genetics held its 1st International Conference


Cyrpus SocietyThe majority of the participants were from Cyprus, but a large number of colleagues from various European countiries and the US had also found their way to this very interesting meeting. (upd.28 Oct 2008) More...

Patient leaflets translated into Portuguese


Patient leaflet smallThe patient leaflet series has been a major success and has now been translated into Portuguese (upd.23 Oct 2008) More...

Open Call: Diagnostic Molecular Genetics Best Practice Meeting


EMQNEMQN in conjunction with EuroGentest are issuing an open call for topics for best practice meetings to be held in 2009. (upd.10 Oct 2008) More...

Have patients' opinions been asked?


FamilyA review of 102 studies from the years 1997- 2007 on patient perspective of genetic counselling services in genetic testing (upd.10 Oct 2008) More...Download PDF Document

EuroGentest website redesigned


Road worksOur web masters have redesigned several of our web pages and upgraded many of its functions to provide you with a better platform for genetic testing. (upd.23 Sep 2008) More...

Alamut evaluation report ready


NGRL Manchester prepared a decision support document for molecular diagnostic laboratories using Interactive Biosoftware Alamut v1.2 (upd.17 Sep 2008) More...Download PDF Document

CEQA scheme open for 2008


CEQACEQA opens it's EQA schemes on 26th of August and closes them on 23th September (upd.04 Sep 2008) More...

Major presence at South America


Congreso Latinoamericano de Genética HumanaEuroGentest will be well represented at the first congress of the Latin American Network of Human Genetics (RELAGH) in October with presentations on both the overall project and individual topics such as Quality Management in the Laboratory, Essential knowledge in Medical Genetics for Health Professionals, Information for Patients, Presymptomatic diagnosis and predictive medicine and the Orphanet database (upd.27 Aug 2008) More...Exit EuroGentest website

BRCA screening by HRM on the LightCyclerLightCycler


Presentation from Tom Janssens (Unit 5) online now (upd.04 Jul 2008) More...

European Advanced Postgraduate Course in Classical and Molecular Cytogenetics


EUROPEAN CYTOGENETICISTS ASSOCIATIONThe course in Montpellier/Nîmes - France is designed to provide medical graduates, pharmacists, researchers, graduate students and health professionals with advanced training in constitutional, haematological, and oncological cytogenetics. (upd.05 Jun 2008) More...Exit EuroGentest website

Patenting and licensing in genetic testing: ethical, legal and social issues


Sirpa Soini, Ségolène Aymé and Gert Matthijs the members of the Public and Professional Policy Committee (PPPC) and Patenting and Licensing Committee (PLC), on behalf of the ESHG The European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) wants to involve the genetics community in the analysis of, and the discussions on, the practical, political, societal, ethical and economical aspects of patenting and licensing of genes, sequences and genetic tests. (upd.30 May 2008) More...Exit EuroGentest website

Instrument for quality self-assessment in provision of genetic counselling


This instrument is created for internal assessment of the quality of genetic counselling within a genetic counselling clinic. The aim is to support internal education, improve the quality and to start the process of documenting issues related to quality development in genetic counselling clinics. (upd.27 May 2008) More...

Clinical utility gene cards


Unit 3 of EUROGENTEST has developed "points to consider" regarding clinical indications for genetic testing and is inviting for commentaries from the scientific community. (upd.26 May 2008) More...


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