Below you will find the guidelines for blood sampling and shipment of patient material.

• amounts:

  patients	20 ml EDTA blood      +	5 ml heparin blood
  family members	20 ml EDTA blood

• please use plastic tubes, glass tubes will not be accepted
• please put name, date of birth and gender on each tube
• please fill in one of the forms below, when applicable
• ship samples at room temperature. Do not freeze blood samples!
• samples should arrive in our lab within 48 hours after withdrawal, send them preferably on a Monday or Tuesday to:

848 Antropogenetica, route 848 UMC St Radboud (Mrs. S.D. van der Velde-Visser or mrs. M. Kipping) Geert Grooteplein 10 6525 GA Nijmegen

Sending blood samples from patients in the Netherlands.

	Research-general
	Research-inherited blindness
	Research-multifactorial eye diseases
	Research-deafness
	Research-mental retardation

  Sending blood samples from patients with inherited blindness from outside the Netherlands.

• For DNA Diagnostics covered by health insurance, contact mrs. dr. L. Hoefsloot: dna@umcn.nl
• For Research, contact prof. dr. F.P.M. Cremers: F.Cremers@antrg.umcn.nl

In case of problems, please contact our secretary.