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Ionizing radiation and the human gender proportion at birth - a concise review of the literature and complementary analyses of historical and recent data.
Early Hum. Dev. 91, 841-850 (2015)
It has long been known that ionizing radiation causes genetic mutations and that nuclear bomb testing, nuclear accidents, and the regular and incidental emissions of nuclear facilities enhance environmental radioactivity. For this reason, the carcinogenic and genetic impact of ionizing radiation has been an escalating issue for environmental health and human health studies in the past decades. The Windscale fire (1957) and the Chernobyl accident (1986) caused alterations to the human birth sex ratio at national levels across Europe, and childhood cancer and childhood leukemia are consistently elevated near nuclear power plants. These findings are generalized and corroborated by the observation of increased sex ratios near nuclear facilities in Austria, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and The Netherlands. We present a concise review of the pertinent literature and we complement our review by spatiotemporal analyses of historical and most recent data. Evidence of genetic damage by elevated environmental radioactivity is provided.
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Publikationstyp
Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp
Review
Schlagwörter
Atomic Bomb Testing ; Chernobyl ; Ecological Study ; Ionizing Radiation ; Medical X-rays ; Nuclear Facilities ; Radiation Induced Genetic Effects ; Radioactive Fallout ; Time Trend And Distance Trend Analyses ; Windscale/sellafield
Sprache
englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr
2015
HGF-Berichtsjahr
2015
ISSN (print) / ISBN
0378-3782
e-ISSN
1872-6232
Zeitschrift
Early Human Development
Quellenangaben
Band: 91,
Heft: 12,
Seiten: 841-850
Verlag
Elsevier
Verlagsort
Amsterdam
Begutachtungsstatus
Peer reviewed
Institut(e)
Institute of Computational Biology (ICB)
POF Topic(s)
30205 - Bioengineering and Digital Health
Forschungsfeld(er)
Enabling and Novel Technologies
PSP-Element(e)
G-503800-001
PubMed ID
26527392
WOS ID
WOS:000366440000032
Scopus ID
84983177993
Scopus ID
84951980544
Erfassungsdatum
2015-11-05