Monitoring spontaneous and induced human mutation by RAPD-PCR: a response to Weinberg et al. (2001).

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Weinberg et al. (2001, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 268, 1001-1005) have recently reported a major increase in mutation rate in the children of Chernobyl liquidators as a result of their fathers' exposure to ionizing radiation. If correct, this would provide dramatic evidence for radiation-induced mutation in humans, and would raise major concerns over the genetic effects of radiation. However, mutants were mainly...

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