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Genetic susceptibility to radiation.
Advances in space research : the official journal of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) - 1 Jan 2005
Hall E J, Brenner D J, Worgul B, Smilenov L
Abstract excerpt
In the context of space radiation, it is important to know whether the human population includes genetically predisposed radiosensitive subsets. One possibility is that haploinsufficiency for ATM confers radiosensitivity, and this defect involves 1-3% of the population. Using knock-out mice we ch...
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