Characteristics of mitochondrial DNA in the peripheral blood cells of residents of Kazakhstan around Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site

International Congress Series

Volumn 1258, Issue C, 2003, Pages 169-176

  Hamada, Aiko ^a   Chaizhunusova, Neilya J ^b   Saenko, Vladimir A ^a   Rogounovitch, Tatiana I ^a   Takamura, Noboru ^a   Yamashita, Shunichi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Kazakhstan Research Institute of Radiation Medicine and Ecology   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial DNA; Peripheral blood lymphocyte; Radiation; Semipalatinsk Nuclear Testing Site

Indexed keywords

EID: 85023124604     PISSN: 05315131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5131(03)01221-4     Document Type: Article

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