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DNA Mutations Discovered in The Children of Chernobyl Workers

The DNA damage from ionizing radiation (IR) erupting from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 is showing up in the ...
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New DNA mutations uncovered in children of Chernobyl workers

A reanalysis of whole-genome data from 130 children conceived after the Chernobyl disaster has identified a statistically ...

Chernobyl radiation caused DNA mutations in workers’ children, study confirms decades later

Nearly four decades after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, scientists have identified subtle genetic mutation clusters in the ...

DNA mutations found in CHILDREN of Chernobyl workers exposed to radiation after 1986 nuclear disaster

CHILDREN of the Chernobyl “liquidators” who risked it all to clean up the toxic mess are now suffering the consequences, researchers revealed. Almost 40 years since the ...

The Stewards of Chernobyl Are Passing Mutations Down to Their Children

The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers and others exposed to high doses of radiation showed mutations that were also evident in ...
Yale Environment 360

Change trackers: New consortium to catalog DNA mutations across human lifetime

From the time we are conceived and through old age, genetic mutations accumulate in all our tissues, eluding the body’s typically efficient DNA repair machinery and potentially affecting our health ...