1 Department of Human and Clinical Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
2 Department of Pharmacy, School of Health Sciences, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.
3 Department of Medical Genetics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Choremeio Research Laboratory, St. Sophia's Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece.
4 Molecular Genetics Thalassaemia Department, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus.
5 Department of Hematology, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
6 Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University.