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Glycophorin A somatic cell mutations in a population living in the proximity of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site.
Radiation research - 1 Aug 2004
Lindholm Carita, Murphy Brian P, Bigbee William L, Bersimbaev Rakhmetkaji I, Hultén Maj A, Dubrova Yuri E, Salomaa Sisko
Abstract excerpt
The glycophorin A (GPA) somatic mutation assay was performed to evaluate the magnitude of exposure to ionizing radiation among the human population living in the vicinity of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan. All together, 113 blood samples were analyzed from three generations of people living in villages that were under the trail of the radioactive cloud from the first Soviet surface nuclear test...
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