Cytogenetic studies in WHO International Programme on the Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident

"Radiation and Risk" 1997. Vol. 10, pp.147-150

Authors

Souchkevitch G.N.
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Abstract

The paper presents a review of main approaches related to use of cytogenetic methods in biomedical studies, in particular, in progammes and projects of WHO for investigation of medical consequences of the Chernobyl accident. The paper stresses the contribution of prominent radiobiologist and geneticist N.V. Luchnik to development of the theory and practice of chromosome aberrations analysis.

Key words
Cytogenetic methods, biomedical studies, N.V. Luchnik, chromosome aberrations analysis, medical consequences, Chernobyl accident

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