Currently, all agencies of conformity assessment testing laboratory favor the participation in proficiency testing as a mechanism for quality assurance. In Colombia, the Genes Laboratory has been designated, since 2008, to perform, design and implement proficiency testing for all the interested laboratories. In this report, the results of Colombian exercise Interlaboratory Quality Control for the year 2015 are presented. The exercise consisted of one practical component, one theoretical mandatory component, and an optional theoretical component. Twenty laboratories participated, representing six different countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. For the practical component each participant laboratory received; (1) samples of blood, saliva, and semen stains, in this part they should report the routine own laboratory markers for each sample, (2) three optional theoretical cases of varying complexity, (3) a mandatory theoretical approach about a biological relationship of paternal grandparentsgranddaughter case. In the last two components of the exercise, they had to submit only the calculations. For the practical component the consensus of 70 STR markers, distributed between autosomal and linked to the sex chromosomes, was achieved with an error rate of 0.80% in genotyping, 1.0% nomenclature and/or format discrepancies and 3.8% non-reporting. On the other hand, 99.4% of the reported values were correct, only two values were not correct (0.6%) but were within the range of 5% of the correct value, being acceptable values within the rules of the exercise. This inter-laboratory exercise has become an important mechanism for quality assurance and ongoing training in the region.
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