THE SAMPLING IN ITALY

Adriana ValloneAdriana ValloneDipartimento di Biologia

CellulareUniversità della Calabria

Rende, Italy

17 January 200417 January 2004ECHA Project Steering MeetingECHA Project Steering Meeting

Population screening to search the probands and their sibs:

results.

So far 378 (out of 409) Calabrian Municipalities have provided the lists of living subjects born before 1907.

13%

87%

The population of these municipalities account for 1,775,326 inhabitants out of a total of 2,047,015.

Not screened population

Screened population

.

905 905 Potential Probands

540540 Checked

ECHA 240240 300 300 no ECHA

Population screening to search the probands and their sibs: results.

Discordant 141 141 99 99 Concordant

ECHA samples in Calabria:results

• 75 collected nuclear families (proband, son and nephew)

• 9 families to be completed (one collected member)

• 21 families to be contacted

Completing PlanCompleting Plan

Anagraphical SurveyApril 2004

June 2004 Sampling