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Stéphane Mazières1, André Sevin, Sidia M Callegari-Jacques

  • 1Laboratoire d'Anthropobiologie, FRE 2960 CNRS, Faculté de Médecine, Toulouse, France. stephanemazieres@voila.fr

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