[National quality control of genomic HLA typing]

Since 1996 the Immunogenetics Laboratory of the National Cancer Institute/CBA, Genoa, in collaboration with the Immunohematology Research Centre of Bergamo has organized on behalf of Associazione Italiana di Immunogenetica e Biologia dei Trapianti (AIBT) and Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) the quality control programme of HLA genomic typing for class I and II antigens for the laboratories performing HLA typing for organ and bone marrow transplantations. Herewith are reported the results and comments to the 1997 quality control programme along with some overall data.