Mutant frequencies in workers at the Sellafield installation.

doi:10.1097/00004032-199503000-00011

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Mutant frequencies in workers at the Sellafield installation.

Health physics - 1 Mar 1995

Cole J, Arlett C F, Green M H, Holdsworth D, Tawn E J, Bridges B A

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The frequency of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) mutations has been determined in the peripheral T-lymphocytes of 18 workers at the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing installation with cumulative recorded radiation doses of about 500 mSv or more in comparison with a matched con...

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Humans
Hypoxanthine Phosphoribosyltransferase
Male
Mutation
Nuclear Reactors
Occupational Exposure
Radiation Genetics
Radiation Monitoring
Smoking
T-Lymphocytes
United Kingdom

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