Monitoring of radiation-induced germline mutation in humans

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 133, Issue 35-36, 2003, Pages 474-478

  Dubrova, Yuri E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chernobyl; Germline mutation; Ionising radiation; Minisatellite loci; Semipalatinsk

Indexed keywords

SATELLITE DNA;

ATOMIC BOMB; BELARUS; CANCER PATIENT; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETICS; GERM CELL; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; IONIZING RADIATION; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION RESPONSE; UKRAINE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

EID: 0242413980     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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