Affiliation: | (1) Istituto di Clinica e Biologia dell’Età evolutiva, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, I-09121, Cagliari, Italy Tel.: +39-70-6095653, Fax: +39-70-503696, e-mail: crosatel@mcweb.unica.it, IT;(2) Istituto di Ricerca sulle Talassemie ed Anemie Mediterranee, CNR, Cagliari, Italy, IT;(3) Laboratory of Statistical Genetics, Rockefeller University, New York, N.Y., USA, US;(4) Laboratorio di Genetica Molecolare, Istituto G. Gaslini, Universita’ di Genova, Italy, IT;(5) Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Geneva Medical School, 1 rue Michel Servet, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland e-mail: Hamish.Scott@medecine.unige.ch, Tel.: +41-22-702-5719, Fax: +41-22-702-5706, CH;(6) Institute of Medical Technology and University Hospital, University of Tampere, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland, FI;(7) Department of Molecular Biology, Keio University School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan, JP;(8) Division of Medical Genetics, Cantonal Hospital of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland, CH |