Glycophorin a somatic cell mutation frequencies in residents of tibet at high altitudes

Health Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 663-667

  Jensen, Ronald H ^a   Zhang, Shouzhi ^b   Wang, Zuoyuan ^b   Wang, Wenlan ^b   Boice, John ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric; Dose; Expo sure; Health effects; Radiation

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPHORIN;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHINA; COSMIC RADIATION; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IONIZING RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOMATIC CELL; SOMATIC MUTATION;

EID: 0030954836     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199710000-00012     Document Type: Article

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