Further evidence for elevated human minisatellite mutation rate in Belarus eight years after the Chernobyl accident

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 381, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 267-278

  Dubrova, Yuri E ^a,b   Nesterov, Valeri N ^c   Krouchinsky, Nicolay G ^c   Ostapenko, Vladislav A ^c   Vergnaud, Gilles ^d,e   Giraudeau, Fabienne ^d   Buard, Jérome ^a   Jeffreys, Alec J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^c Res Inst for Radiation Medicine   (Belarus)

^d INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE   (France)

^e CENTRE D ETUDES DU BOUCHET   (France)

Author keywords

Chernobyl accident; Human population; Minisatellite mutation; Radiation

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137; DNA MINISATELLITE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BELARUS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTATION RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ADULT; BYELARUS; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DNA DAMAGE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, SATELLITE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; GAMMA RAYS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; METALS, HEAVY; MUTATION; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; UKRAINE;

ANIMALIA; ARCTOCEPHALUS FORSTERI; OTARIIDAE; PANTHERA LEO; PHOCARCTOS HOOKERI; PHOCIDAE; PINNIPEDIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS PHAGE 187;

EID: 0031589753     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(97)00212-1     Document Type: Article

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