2 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar and Department of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, Alexandria University Children's Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt. atsoliman56@gmail.com.
3 Department of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Whittington Hospital, University College London, London, UK. vdesanctis@libero.it.
4 Department of Haematology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman. vdesanctis@libero.it.
5 Thalassemia Unit, Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, First Department of Pediatrics, University of Athens, "Agia Sofia" Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece. vdesanctis@libero.it.
6 National Center for Cancer Care and Research, Medical Oncology Hematology Section HMC, Doha, Qatar. vdesanctis@libero.it.
7 Hematology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. vdesanctis@libero.it.
8 Medical Director of Antalya Genetic Diseases Center, Antalya, Turkey. vdesanctis@libero.it.
9 Head Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Department of Hematology Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. vdesanctis@libero.it.
10 Department of Pediatric Haematoncology, Thalassaemia and Prenatal Diagnosis Regional Center, Pugliese-Ciaccio Hospital, Catanzaro, Italy. vdesanctis@libero.it.
11 Department of Paediatrics, Pugliese-Ciaccio Hospital,Catanzaro, Italy. vdesanctis@libero.it.
12 UOSD Microcitemie, Grande Ospedale Metropolitano "Bianchi- Melacrino- Morelli", Reggio Calabria, Italy. vdesanctis@libero.it.