1 CINVESTAV-IPN, Departamento de Computación, Av. IPN No. 2508, Col. San Pedro Zacatenco, México, D.F. 07300, Mexico [email protected] 2 Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale de Lille (LIFL), UMR CNRS 8022, Université Lille 1, Bâtiment M3, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq cedex, France 3 INRIA Lille-Nord Europe, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, 40 avenue Halley, 59650 Villeneuve d’Ascq, Fran...

Yamir Moreno, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Alexei Vázquez, and Alessandro Vespignani The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, P.O. Box 586, 34100 Trieste, Italy 2 Departament de F́ısica i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord, Mòdul B4, 08034 Barcelona, Spain International School for Advanced Studies SISSA/ISAS, via Beirut 4, 34014 Trieste, Italy...

1 Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 9, 1005 Lausanne, Switzerland 2 Institute of Functional Genomic, INSERM 661, CNRS 5203, Montpellier 1 and 2 Universities, Montpellier, France 3 Lille 2 University and European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID) FR 3508, University of Lille Nord de France, CNRS-UMR 8199, Lille, Fr...

Dénutritions Maternelles Périnatales, SN4, Université de Lille 1, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq, 8 France; Unité de glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle (UMR8576), Université de Lille 9 1, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq, France ; InsermU744, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Université Lille 10 Nord de France, 59019 Lille, France ;Institute of Nutritional Physiology "Oskar Kellner", 11 Leibniz Institute for ...

T. Laarmann,1,* K. von Haeften, A. Kanaev, H. Wabnitz, and T. Möller Hamburger Synchrotronstrahlungslabor HASYLAB at Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany Laboratoire d’Ingénierie des Matériaux et des Hautes Pressions, C.N.R.S. Institut Galilée, Université Paris-Nord, 93430 Villetaneuse, France ~Received 21 May 2002; revised manuscript received 03 September...

OCTAVIO MIRAMONTES∗ Departamento de Sistemas Complejos, Instituto de Física Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, CP 1000 D.F., México RICARD V. SOLE† Complex Systems Research Group, Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Sor Eulália d’Anzizu s/n, Campus Nord Módul B4, 08034 Barcelona, Spain The Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Pa...

Hereditary Hemochromatosis (HH) is a recessively inherited disorder of iron overload occurring commonly in subjects homozygous for the C282Y mutation in HFE gene localized on chromosome 6p21.3 in linkage disequilibrium with the human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A locus. Although its genetic homogeneity, the phenotypic expression is variable suggesting the presence of modifying factors. One such gen...

BACKGROUND Strong geographic variations in the incidence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are observed in developed countries. The reasons for these variations are unknown. They may reflect regional inequalities in the population's sociodemographic characteristics, related diseases, or medical practice patterns. In France, at the district level, the highest incidence rates have been found in t...

Prevalence of Stroke and Stroke-Related Disability To the Editor: Bonita and colleagues1 provide valuable information on the prevalence of stroke and the proportion with persisting sequelae. Their conclusions, drawn on the basis on an actuarial model, agree well with the results from a population-based survey from Nord-Trøndelag County, Norway.2 This study comprised 74 977 persons, including pe...