Results of cytogenetic study of children from radionuclid contaminated goitre endemic zone of the Rivne region of Ukraine

Under the conventional cytogenetical examination of 6 different children groups (with and without nonstohastic thyroid pathology, exposed and nonexposed to the iodine isotopes in 1986) from the goiter endemic zone of Ukraine which belongs to the territory contaminated by ¹³⁷Cs radionuclides, the identical to the spontaneous level of somatic chromosome mutagenesis of the last decade in all observed groups with the tendency to increasing of stable aberrations in some persons had been establised.

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