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Performance Characteristics

Availability

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  • Entire test performed in-house

Analytical Validity

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Sequencing: Sensitivity >98%, specifity >99%; MLPA: Sensitivity >95%, specifity >95%

Citations

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Proficiency Testing (PT)

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No

FDA Regulatory Clearances of the Test

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Suggested reading

  • Frase, 2016
    Dream On: The Pursuit to Cure Myotubular Myopathy Born out of a Mother's Vision

Practice guidelines

  • EuroGenetest, 2012
    Clinical utility gene card for: Centronuclear and myotubular myopathies.

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