Acknowledgments

The authors thank the Municipalities of Calabria (southern Italy) and all the persons who participated in the study for their precious collaboration. This work was financed by the b Q EU project European Challenge for Healthy Aging (No. QLRT-2001-00128, Call Identifier QOL-2001-3) and by the Italian Ministry of Instruction, University, and Research (FIRB/2001; project b Identificazione di profili genomici nucleo-mitocondriali nella patogenesi di malattie comuni Q eta`-associate. Implicazioni diagnostiche e terapeutiche ).

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