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MAQC and the era of genomic medicine

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The MicroArray Quality Control consortium—a 16-year international effort led by the FDA and involving hundreds of scientists from academia, industry and government—helped make genomic medicine a reality.

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Fig. 1: The four project phases of the MAQC consortium (top) and advances in related genomic regulatory science (bottom).

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Salit, M., Woodcock, J. MAQC and the era of genomic medicine. Nat Biotechnol 39, 1066–1067 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-01050-y

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