RE: Genetic Effects?

["Wright, Will \(DHS-PSB\)" <WWright2@DHS.CA.GOV>]

yes the genital padding is the precautionary measure.  i have an article from the nejm 1990's advising of certain hereditary conditions leading to heritable and nonheritable changes after exposure undr medical treatment.  depends on what you mean by "known". there are no dose related studies directed at determining the frequency of any or a group of genes mutations in humans after a known  exposure and looking at the expected gene progeny by doing back mating or gene sequencing or gene product electorphoresis.



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Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 7:17 AM

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Subject: Genetic Effects?





Radsafers,



I imagine this topic has been worked over on this forum before, so I ask

your forbearance as I pose this question.



The Sep. 2004 issue of Science & Technology Review from LLNL includes a

primer on radiation in a sidebar on p. 6.  In it, the following statement is

made: "Exposure to large amounts of ionizing radiation (on the order of

hundreds of times the natural exposure levels) increases the risk of. . .

genetic mutations that can be passed on to future generations."



Is there any evidence of this (genetic effects) in humans?



Thanks.



Bates Estabrooks

BWXT Y-12  

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