A robust procedure for removing background damage in assays of radiation-induced DNA fragment distributions

Radiation Research

Volumn 166, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 908-916

  Ponomarev, Artem L ^a,b   Belli, Mauro ^c   Hahnfeldt, Philip J ^d   Hlatky, Lynn ^d   Sachs, Rainer K ^e   Cucinotta, Francis A ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b USRA   (United States)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA DAMAGE; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; TELOMERE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; BACKGROUND RADIATION; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 33845362843     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR0663.1     Document Type: Article

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