Re: genetic instability

[Bjorn Sandstrom <sandstrom@ume.foa.se>]

There is also a time scale associated with genomic instabilty. Typically
cells that survive radiation has a certain number of damages (usually
studied at the chromosomal level). If you study the daughter cells some
generations later and the number of damages have increased you then speak
in terms of genomic instabilty. The idea being that the initially obtained
radiation induced direct damages and instabilty, which is processed and
shows up in additional damages in the latter cell generations.

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