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Mutagenicity monitoring following battlefield exposures: Longitudinal study of HPRT mutations in Gulf War I veterans exposed to depleted uranium.
Environmental and molecular mutagenesis - 1 Aug 2015
Albertini Richard J, Vacek Pamela M, Carter Elizabeth W, Nicklas Janice A, Squibb Katherine S, Gucer Patricia W, Engelhardt Susan M, McDiarmid Melissa A
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A total of 70 military Veterans have been monitored for HPRT T-cell mutations in five separate studies at 2-year intervals over an 8-year period. Systemic depleted uranium (DU) levels were measured at the time of each study by determining urinary uranium (uU) excretion. Each HPRT study included 30-40 Veterans, several with retained DU-containing shrapnel. Forty-nine Veterans were evaluated in multiple studies,...
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