Children of Chernobyl cleanup workers do not show elevated rates of mutations in minisatellite alleles

Radiation Research

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 74-80

  Livshits, L A ^a   Malyarchuk, S G ^a   Lukyanova, E M ^a   Antipkin, Y G ^a   Arabskaya, L P ^a   Kravchenko, S A ^a   Matsuka, G H ^a   Petit, E ^a   Giraudeau, F ^a   Gourmelon, P ^a   Vergnaud, G ^a   Le Guen, B ^a  

^a EDF R AND D   (France)

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Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTATION RATE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; UKRAINE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0035144588     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/0033-7587(2001)155[0074:COCCWD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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