Hereditary minisatellite mutations among the offspring of Estonian Chernobyl cleanup workers

Radiation Research

Volumn 159, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 651-655

  Kiuru, Anne ^a   Auvinen, Anssi ^a   Luokkamäki, Mikko ^a   Makkonen, Kaisa ^a   Veidebaum, Toomas ^b,c   Tekkel, Mare ^b,c   Rahu, Mati ^b,c   Hakulinen, Timo ^d   Servomaa, Kristina ^e   Rytömaa, Tapio ^f   Mustonen, Riitta ^a  

^a STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

^b Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine Tallinn   (Estonia)

^c Estonia   (Estonia)

^d FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

^e Finland's Environmental Administration   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; DNA MINISATELLITE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA PROBE; ESTONIA; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTANT; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; PATERNAL AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SEX; SIBLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORKER;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ADULT; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; POWER PLANTS; SPERMATOGENESIS; UKRAINE;

EID: 0038640342     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/0033-7587(2003)159[0651:HMMATO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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