Scoring variability of micronuclei in binucleated human lymphocytes in a case-control study

Mutagenesis

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 191-197

  Patino Garcia, Brenda ^a   Hoegel, Josef ^a   Varga, Dominic ^a   Hoehne, Maren ^a   Michel, Isabell ^a   Jainta, Silke ^a   Kreienberg, Rolf ^a   Maier, Christiane ^a   Vogel, Walther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CELL NUCLEUS; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MICRONUCLEUS; MICRONUCLEUS TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STORAGE; TIME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; OBSERVER VARIATION; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 33745062569     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: 14643804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/gel018     Document Type: Article

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