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Cytogenetic effects induced by Prestige oil on human populations: the role of polymorphisms in genes involved in metabolism and DNA repair.
Mutation research - 31 May 2008
Pérez-Cadahía Beatriz, Laffon Blanca, Valdiglesias Vanessa, Pásaro Eduardo, Méndez Josefina
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The spill from the oil tanker Prestige (NW Spain, November 2002) was perhaps the biggest ecological disaster that happened worldwide in the last decades. As a consequence of this catastrophe a general concern led to a huge mobilization of human and technical resources. Given that no information was reported in the scientific literature regarding to the chronic repercussions to human health of exposure to oil...
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