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Background ionizing radiation plays a minor role in the production of chromosome translocations in a control population

J. N. LUCAS, W. DENG, D. MOORE, F. HILL, M. WADE, A. LEWIS, F. SAILES, C. KRAMER, A. HSIEH, N. GALVAN
Pages 819-827 | Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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