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Kishor Bhatia
National Institutes of Health
Division of Clinical Sciences
Building 10, Room 13N240
Bethesda, MD 20892-1928

Irene Joab
Institut de Génétique Moleculaire
Pharmacologie Expérimentale et Clinique
IFR Saint Louis
75010 Paris
France

Ian Magrath
National Institutes of Health
Division of Clinical Sciences
Building 10, Room 13N240
Bethesda, MD 20892-1928

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 10, September 4, 1999, p. 152. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.