Heritability of baseline and induced micronucleus frequencies

Mutagenesis

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 111-117

  Surowy, Harald ^a   Rinckleb, Antje ^a   Luedeke, Manuel ^a   Stuber, Madeleine ^a   Wecker, Anna ^a   Varga, Dominic ^a   Maier, Christiane ^a   Hoegel, Josef ^a   Vogel, Walther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEUGEN; CLASTOGEN;

BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BIOMETRY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENE MUTATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MICRONUCLEUS; MUTAGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MICRONUCLEI, CHROMOSOME-DEFECTIVE; MICRONUCLEUS TESTS; MUTAGENS; RADIATION TOLERANCE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650642602     PISSN: 02678357     EISSN: 14643804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mutage/geq059     Document Type: Review

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