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Estimation of genetic risks of exposure to ionizing radiation: status in the year 2000.
Radiatsionnaia biologiia, radioecologiia - 1 Jan 2000
Sankaranarayanan K
Abstract excerpt
This paper provides an overview of the advances in the estimation of genetic risks of exposure of human populations to ionizing radiation with particular emphasis on the advances during the last decade. Among the latter are: (a) an upward revision of the estimates of the baseline frequencies of Mendelian diseases (from 1.25 to 2.4%); (b) the conceptual change to the use of a doubling dose based on human data on...
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