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Mutation rates at the glycophorin A and HPRT loci in uranium miners exposed to radon progeny.
Occupational and environmental medicine - 1 Jul 1996
Shanahan E M, Peterson D, Roxby D, Quintana J, Morely A A, Woodward A
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OBJECTIVES: To find whether a relation exists between estimated levels of exposure to radon and its progeny and mutations in hypoxanthine phosphoribosyl transferase (HPRT) and glycophorin A in a cohort of former uranium miners. METHODS: A cohort study involving a sample of miners from the Radium Hill uranium mine in South Australia, which operated from 1952 to 1961. Radiation exposures underground at Radium Hill...
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