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Elevated minisatellite mutation rate in the post-chernobyl families from ukraine.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Oct 2002
Dubrova Yuri E, Grant Gemma, Chumak Anatoliy A, Stezhka Vasyl A, Karakasian Angela N
Abstract excerpt
Germline mutation at eight human minisatellite loci has been studied among families from rural areas of the Kiev and Zhitomir regions of Ukraine, which were heavily contaminated by radionuclides after the Chernobyl accident. The control and exposed groups were composed of families containing children conceived before and after the Chernobyl accident, respectively. The groups were matched by ethnicity, maternal...
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