Data from the Wellcome Group Quality Control Programme and from the National Quality Control Scheme were kindly provided by Dr. B. A. L. Hurn and Prof. T. P. Whitehead respectively. Figures 1 and 2 are reproduced, with permission, from the Journal of Biological Chemistry and Clinica Chimica Acta respectively.
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