Radiation accidents in the Southern Urals (1949-1967) and human genome damage

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 715-731

  Soyfer, Valery N ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA sequencing; Health small doses effect; Human genome damage; Radiation catastrophies

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; PHENYLALANINE 4 MONOOXYGENASE; PLUTONIUM;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA DAMAGE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HYPERPHENYLALANINEMIA; INTRON; PHENYLKETONURIA; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION DOSE; USSR; GENETICS; GENOME; MORTALITY; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION INJURIES; USSR;

EID: 0036848855     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(02)00180-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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