Evaluation of a BeadXpress assay for a 151-mutation and variant CFTR screening panel after 11,000 samples: implications for practice.

We created a 151-mutation and variant screening panel for cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) using the Illumina Inc. BeadXpress platform (San Diego, CA). The laboratory developed test was validated using a third-party blinding of a set of 450 samples split with an authority laboratory that provides a large panel CFTR screening and 50 diverse controls admixed randomly.