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L024 Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Inbound Shipments   Add to my SOP compendium

BRD ID: 1,448

Source: TCGA Tier: SOP Number of times downloaded: 8799

Description

This document describes procedures relating to receipt of shipments containing whole blood; paraffin blocks, scrolls/ribbons, and slides; and frozen tissue and nucleic acid specimens. It is a product of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Program and was developed for use by Biospecimen Core Resource (BCR), located within the Biopathology Center (BPC) at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. More information on TCGA and the BCR is available at https://www.cancer.gov/ccg/research/genome-sequencing/tcga.

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Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Inbound Shipments.pdf [Size: 4707 KB]

Biospecimens
  • Tissue - General
  • Fluid - Blood
Diagnoses
  • General
Topics
  • Biospecimen Shipment

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