The children of atomic bomb survivors: A genetic study

Book · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:6823955

Neel, J V; Schull, W J ^[1]

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1. eds.

In this volume, many of the most important publications that appeared over the years on the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been collected. Studies on health effects reached some important conclusions. Irradiation of gonads with moderately high dosage of ionizing irradiation as received by atomic bomb survivors did not lead to any statistically recognizable increase of health hazards among the survivors offspring. Constitutional aberrations and genetic variants recognizable at the protein level were not enhanced either.

• OSTI ID: 6823955
• Resource Relation: Other Information: From review by F. Vogel, Institut fuer Humangenetik und Anthropologie, Heidelberg, Germany, in American Journal of Human Genetics, Vol. 52, No. 3, (Mar 1993)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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