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Paternal exposure not to blame

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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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  1. Imperial Cancer Research Fund Cancer Units, University of Oxford, Radcliffe Infirmary, Wood-stock Road, Oxford, 0X2 6HE, UK

    R. Doll & H. J. Evans

  2. MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK

    S. C. Darby

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Doll, R., Evans, H. & Darby, S. Paternal exposure not to blame. Nature 367, 678–680 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/367678a0

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