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What’s new in next-gen sequencing checklist requirements

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Anne Paxton

August 2015—The first CAP accreditation checklist requirements specific to next-generation sequencing were published only three years ago. “In 2012, those 18 accreditation requirements were basically all new language that the College’s Next-Generation Sequencing Project Team developed and submitted for review,” says project team chair Karl Voelkerding, MD, of the University of Utah Department of Pathology and ARUP Laboratories.

It’s not been a static process, he says. “Each subsequent year, our project team has taken the opportunity to review, revise, and update the requirements, to adapt them to meet the rapid evolution of NGS and its translation to clinical diagnostic testing.”

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