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Further evidence for elevated human minisatellite mutation rate in Belarus eight years after the Chernobyl accident.
Mutation research - 28 Nov 1997
Dubrova Y E, Nesterov V N, Krouchinsky N G, Ostapenko V A, Vergnaud G, Giraudeau F, Buard J, Jeffreys A J
Abstract excerpt
Analysis of germline mutation rate at human minisatellites among children born in areas of the Mogilev district of Belarus heavily polluted after the Chernobyl accident has been extended, both by recruiting more families from the affected region and by using five additional minisatellite probes, including multi-locus probe 33.6 and four hypervariable single-locus probes. These additional data confirmed a twofold...
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