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Comment on “Dose-responses from multi-model inference for the non-cancer disease mortality of atomic bomb survivors” (Radiat. Environ. Biophys (2012) 51:165–178) by Schöllnberger et al.

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  1. Radiation Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Executive Plaza South, 6120 Executive Boulevard MSC 7238, Rockville, MD, 20852-7238, USA

    Mark P. Little

  2. Southern Urals Biophysics Institute, Ozyorsk, Russia

    Tamara V. Azizova

  3. Research Center for Radiation Medicine, Kiev, Ukraine

    Dimitry Bazyka, Vadim V. Chumak & Sergiy V. Klymenko

  4. Health Protection Agency, Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Chilton, UK

    Simon D. Bouffler, John D. Harrison & Wei Zhang

  5. Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain

    Elisabeth Cardis

  6. Medical Radiological Research Center of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Obninsk, Russia

    Sergey Chekin, Victor Ivanov & Valeriy V. Kashcheev

  7. NASA Johnson Space Center, Radiation Health Office, Houston, TX, USA

    Francis A. Cucinotta

  8. Radiation Epidemiology Group, INSERM Unité U1018, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France

    Florent de Vathaire

  9. Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

    Per Hall

  10. Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

    Guido Hildebrandt

  11. Program in Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

    Olivier Laurent

  12. Laboratoire D’Epidémiologie, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucleaire (IRSN), PRP-HOM, SRBE, LEPID, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

    Olivier Laurent

  13. Department of Epidemiology, Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Hiroshima City, Japan

    Kotaro Ozasa

  14. Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Institute of Radiation Biology (ISB), Radiation Proteomics, Oberschleissheim, Germany

    Soile Tapio

  15. UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences & Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK

    Andrew M. Taylor

  16. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK

    Ioanna Tzoulaki & Wendy L. Vandoolaeghe

  17. Dalton Nuclear Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    Richard Wakeford

  18. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Lydia Zablotska

  19. Department of Pediatrics, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

    Steven E. Lipshultz

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Little, M.P., Azizova, T.V., Bazyka, D. et al. Comment on “Dose-responses from multi-model inference for the non-cancer disease mortality of atomic bomb survivors” (Radiat. Environ. Biophys (2012) 51:165–178) by Schöllnberger et al.. Radiat Environ Biophys 52, 157–159 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00411-012-0453-6

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