Guidance for standards for relationship testing laboratories
Edition: 8th edition.
Publisher: AABB
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781563952579
Subjects: Paternity testing; Standards
Other titles: AABB Guidance for standards for relationship testing laboratories; Standards for relationship testing laboratories; Guidance for standards for parentage testing laboratories
Notes: Guideline prepared to assist laboratories in applying for accreditation according to the AABB Standards for relationship testing laboratories.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-157).
Table of contents: title: Organization; title: Resources; title: Equipment; title: Supplier and customer issues; title: Process control; title: Documents and records; title: Deviations and nonconforming products and services; title: Assessments: internal and external; title: Process improvement through corrective and preventive action; title: Facilities and safety; title: Aappendix 1. Glossary to the Standards for Relationship Testing Laboratories; title: Appendix 2. variance processes; title: Appendix 3A. A listing of WHO-Recognized HLA-A,-B serologic specificities as of 2002; title: Appendix 3B. Examples of serologic equivalents for selected low-resolution molecular types; title: Appendix 4. The Sigma value; title: Appendix 5A. Reported band sizes of K562 with Hae III and Pst I at selected Loci; title: Appendix 5B. Consensus phenotypes of different "Positive Control" DNA samples used for PCR/STR and RFLP analysis methods; title: Appendix 6. The Delta value; title: Appendix 7. Numeric statements of the strength of the genetic evidence; title: Appendix 8. Formulas for paternity index and RMNE values for simple codominant systems; title: Appendix 9. Calculation of the paternity index for the HLA system; title: Appendix 10. Kinship analysis; title: Appendix 11A. Mutation rates summarized for genetic markers analyzed by RFLP mapping; title: Appendix 11B. Apparent mutations summarized for generic systems analyzed by PCR; title: Appendix 11C. Repeat characteristics for PCR/STR mutations; title: Appendix 11D.Non-exclusion probabilities for related brothers/fathers of included tested men; title: Appendix 12. The effect of isolated inconsistencies in the statistical evaluation of paternity: a 2005 update; title: References; title: Additional resources.