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"Low Level Revision 1 by Radiation, Science, and Health, Inc., 1.2.1 1.2.1.4 |
BEIR V
(1990) states (p 4) in the Executive Summary, Heritable Effects that
"heritable effects have yet to be clearly demonstrated in man." There is an
absence of a statistically significant increase in genetically related disease in the
children of atomic bomb survivors, the largest group of irradiated humans followed in a
systematic way. Professor Emeritus, and Member of the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR), of the Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection, Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski reports (1995b) on genetic effects, that "…information on (unexpected) positive genetic effects of ionizing doses of radiation comes from Hiroshima and Nagasaki...(where data) shows that acute irradiation with moderate doses does not produce any major negative effect on the health of the following generation. However, among the children of parents who … there were about 4% fewer deaths between 1946 and 1958 than among the children of parents unexposed to radiation from atomic bombs, 28% less aneuploidy, 29% fewer chromosomal aberrations, and 30% fewer mutations in blood proteins." Professor Emeritus Dr. Sohei Kondo also reports (Kondo 1993, Section 3.4) on genetic effects that there are no statistically significant effects of parental exposure to radiation to any indicators of genetic effects in the children of survivors. Professor Emeritus Dr. Don Luckey (1991) reports that: "Anticipated mutations and genetic abnormalities in children born of parents exposed to low doses of radiation from atomic bombs were not found. Phenotypic mutations were not found in 77,000 children of the Japanese atomic bomb survivors using a most sensitive technique of changes in electrophoretic patterns of serum proteins." |
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