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Review
. 1994 Feb 24;367(6465):678-80.
doi: 10.1038/367678a0.

Paternal exposure not to blame

R Doll  1 , H J Evans, S C Darby
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Review

Paternal exposure not to blame

R Doll et al. Nature. .

Abstract

The "Gardner hypothesis" suggests that an excess of childhood leukaemia near a nuclear reprocessing plant is caused by paternal exposure to ionizing radiation. But the evidence shows that this explanation is wrong.

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