Mini-and microsatellite mutations in children from Chernobyl accident cleanup workers

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 559, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 143-151

  Slebos, Robbert J C ^a   Little, Ruth E ^a   Umbach, David M ^a   Antipkin, Yurij ^b   Zadaorozhnaja, Tamara D ^b   Mendel, Nikola A ^b   Sommer, Courtney A ^a   Conway, Kathleen ^c,d   Parrish, Eloise ^d   Gulino, Sara ^d   Taylor, Jack A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Inst Pediat   (Ukraine)

^c IL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chernobyl accident; Germline mutation; Microsatellite; Minisatellite

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOTTING; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA PROBE; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LYMPHOCYTE; MUTATION RATE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORKER;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ADULT; CHILD; DNA PROBES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; UKRAINE;

EID: 11144355040     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2004.01.003     Document Type: Article

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