Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program

ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Bio-Reference Laboratories, Elmwood Park, NJ, USA
Cancer Geriatrics Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Biochemical Genetics Laboratory, Duke University, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Biochemical Genetics Laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
Biochemical Genetics Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Children’s Hospital National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
Department of Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Department of Human Nutrition, University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg Campus, Tygerberg, South Africa
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta Hospital, Alberta, Canada
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
ESA Laboratories, Inc., Chelmsford, MA, USA
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA
Global Central Laboratory, Highland Heights, KY, USA
Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Human Nutrition Unit, National Institute for Food and Nutritional Research, Rome, Italy
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Kronos Science Laboratory, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Laboratoire de Biochimie, Hôpital Purpan, Toulouse, France
Life Sciences Group, Wyle Laboratories, Inc., Houston, TX, USA
MetaMetrix Medical Laboratory, Duluth, GA, USA
MRC Laboratory for Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge, England
Neonatal Nutrition Research Laboratory, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
Nutrition Research Laboratory, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA     
Pediatric CTRC CORE Laboratory, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO, USA
Quest Diagnostics, Inc., Chantilly, VA, USA
R&D Analytical Research Center, DSM Nutritional Products, Ltd., Kaiseraugst, Switzerland
Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland
Servicio de Endocrinologia y Nutricion, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain

Development of Serum-Based SRMs to Assess Nutritional Status
SRM for Vitamin D in Human Serum
Vitamins B6 and B12 in Human Serum

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Brown Thomas, J. and Sharpless, K. E., eds., Methods for Analysis of Cancer Chemopreventive Agents in Human Serum, NIST Special Publication 874, U. S. Gov't Printing Office, Washington, DC, 128 pages, (1995).

Sharpless, K. E.; Duewer, D. L. Population Distributions and Intralaboratory Variance for Fat-Soluble Vitamin-Related Compounds in Human Serum, Anal. Chem., 67: 4416-4422 (1995).

Brown Thomas, J.; Kline, M. C.; Schiller, S. B.; Ellerbe, P. M.; Sniegoski, L. T.; Duewer, D. L.; Sharpless, K. E. Certification of Fat-Soluble Vitamins, Carotenoids, and Cholesterol in Human Serum: Standard Reference Material 968b, Fresenius' J. Anal. Chem., 356:1-9 (1996). 

Margolis, S. A.; Duewer, D. L. The Measurement of Ascorbic Acid in Human Plasma and Serum: Intralaboratory Repeatability, Interlaboratory Repeatability, Interlaboratory Reproducibility, and Stability in Lyophilized Plasma and Metaphosphoric Acid Preserved Plasma and Serum, Clin. Chem., 42: 1257-1262 (1996).

Duewer, D.L., Brown Thomas, J. Kline, M.C., MacCrehan, W. A., Schaffer, R., Sharpless, K.E., May, W.E., “NIST/NCI Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program: Measurement Reproducibility, Repeatability, Stability, and Relative Accuracy for Fat-Soluble Vitamin-Related Compounds in Human Sera,” Anal. Chem. 69: 1406-1413 (1997).

Margolis, S.A. and Schapira, R.M. Liquid Chromatographic Measurement of L-Ascorbic Acid and D-Ascorbic Acid in Biological Samples, J. Chromatogr. B, 690: 25-33 (1997).

Sharpless, K.S., Brown Thomas, J., Turley, C.P., and Brewster, M.A., “Vitamin A,” In: LaboratoryMedicine: A Scientific and Managerial Infobase, Version 2.6, A.J.Pesce and L.A. Kaplan, (eds.) Pesce Kaplan Publisher, Cincinnati, OH, CD-Rom (1997).

Sharpless, K.S., Brown Thomas, J., Turley, C.P., and Brewster, M.A., “Vitamin E,” In: Laboratory Medicine: A Scientific and Managerial Infobase, Version 2.6, A.J.Pesce and L.A. Kaplan, (eds.) Pesce Kaplan Publisher, Cincinnati, OH, CD-Rom (1997).

Brown Thomas, J.; Kline, M. C.; Duewer, D. L.; Sharpless, K. E, The Stability of Retinol, α-Tocopherol, Trans-Lycopene, and Trans- β-Carotene in Liquid-frozen and Lyophilized Serum in Human Serum, Clin. Chim. Acta, 276:75-87 (1998).

Duewer, D. L.; Kline, M. C.; Sharpless, K. E.; Brown Thomas, J. M.; Gary, K. T.; Sowell, A. L. Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program: Helping Participants Use Inter-laboratory Comparison Exercise Results to Improve their Long-term Measurement Performance. Anal. Chem., 71: 1870 -1878 (1999).

Duewer. D.L., Kline, M.C., Sharpless, K.E., Brown Thomas, J., Stacewicz-Sapuntzakis, M., And Sowell, A.L., “NIST Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program: Characterizing Individual Participant Measurement Performance Over Time,” Anal. Chem., 72: 3611- 3619 (2000).

Duewer. D.L., Kline, M.C., Sharpless, K.E., and Brown Thomas, J., “NIST Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program: Characterizing the Measurement Community’s Performance Over Time,” Anal. Chem., 72: 4163 - 4170 (2000).

Brown Thomas, J., Kline, M.C., Gill, L.M., Yen, J.H., Duewer, D.L., Sniegoski, L.T., and Sharpless, K.E., “Preparation and Value Assignment of Constituents in Standard Reference Material 968c: Fat-Soluble Vitamins, Carotenoids, and Cholesterol in Human Serum,” Clin. Chim. Acta, 305:141 -155 (2001).