Down syndrome time-clustering in January 1987 in Belarus: Link with the Chernobyl accident?

Reproductive Toxicology

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 289-295

  Zatsepin, Ivan ^a   Verger, Pierre ^b   Robert Gnansia, Elisabeth ^c   Gagnière, Bertrand ^d   Tirmarche, Margot ^e   Khmel, Rostislav ^a   Babicheva, Irina ^a   Lazjuk, Gennady ^f  

^a Belarusian Research and Healthcare Centre Mother and Child   (Belarus)

^b OBSERVATOIRE RÉGIONAL DE LA SANTÉ PROVENCE ALPES CÔTE D AZUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d Cellule Inter Régionale d'Épidémiologie Ouest   (France)

^e Institute for Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety   (France)

^f BELARUSIAN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Chernobyl disaster; Cluster; Congenital anomalies; Down syndrome; Ionizing radiation; Registry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BELARUS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; IONIZING RADIATION; KARYOTYPING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PLUME; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOSENSITIVITY;

BYELARUS; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; DOWN SYNDROME; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL AGE; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 35548967629     PISSN: 08906238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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