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Very high mutation rate in offspring of Chernobyl accident liquidators.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 May 2001
Weinberg H S, Korol A B, Kirzhner V M, Avivi A, Fahima T, Nevo E, Shapiro S, Rennert G, Piatak O, Stepanova E I, Skvarskaja E
Abstract excerpt
Exposure to ionizing radiation has long been suspected to increase mutation load in humans. Nevertheless, such events as atomic bombing seem not to have yielded significant genetic defects. The Chernobyl accident created a different, long-term exposure to radiation. Clean-up teams (or 'liquidators') of the Chernobyl reactor are among those who received the highest doses, presumably in some combination of acute...
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