Kathleen S Wilson
UT south Western Medical Center, USA
Title: The application of validation and proficiency testing concepts from current clinical genetic diagnostics for the implementation of new genetic technologies Kathleen S Wilson, UT south
Biography
Biography: Kathleen S Wilson
Abstract
The advent of new genetic technologies that may be utilized for clinical diagnostics is rapid and the actual mechanics of howrnthese evolving technologies are implemented in a clinical laboratory can be challenging. Participation for over a decade in therndevelopment of regulatory guidelines and profi ciency testing through the College of American Pathologists/American Collegernof Medical Genetics Cytogenetics Resource Committee as well as experience in the Genetic Diagnostics Laboratories at U.T.rnSouthwestern have elucidated key concepts that were critical in the successful implementation of the technologies of fl uorescencernin situ hybridization (FISH) and cytogenomic microarray analysis (CMA) into clinical practice, and now have relevance for thernrapidly evolving sequencing technologies. Th is presentation will discuss these concepts and give specifi c examples of how thernlessons learned from prior technology have relevance for the clinical genetic diagnostics of the future.