Human minisatellite mutation rate after the Chernobyl accident.

doi:10.1038/380683a0

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Human minisatellite mutation rate after the Chernobyl accident.

Nature - 25 Apr 1996

Dubrova Y E, Nesterov V N, Krouchinsky N G, Ostapenko V A, Neumann R, Neil D L, Jeffreys A J

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Germline mutation at human minisatellite loci has been studied among children born in heavily polluted areas of the Mogilev district of Belarus after the Chernobyl accident and in a control population. The frequency of mutation was found to be twice as high in the exposed families as in the contr...

Topics

Adult
Cesium Radioisotopes
Cohort Studies
DNA Fingerprinting
DNA Probes
DNA, Satellite
Female
Germ-Line Mutation
Humans
Infant
Male
Mutation
Power Plants
Radioactive Fallout
Radioactive Hazard Release
Ukraine

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