No excess mutations in the children of Chernobyl survivors, new study finds

For over 30 years, environmentalists, alarmists and the like have warned the public with their apocalyptic exaggerations about the Chernobyl nuclear accident!

"... Working with colleagues at the Broad Institute, Chanock’s team sequenced the genomes of 105 parents and 130 children born between 1987 and 2002. Numbers of DNMs [de novo mutations] were no greater than those seen in the general population—even at the highest radiation doses, the researchers report today in Science. ..."

"Effects of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl nuclear accident remain a topic of interest. We investigated whether children born to parents employed as cleanup workers or exposed to occupational and environmental ionizing radiation post-accident were born with more germline de novo mutations (DNMs). Whole-genome sequencing of 130 children (born 1987-2002) and their parents did not reveal an increase in the rates, distributions, or types of DNMs versus previous studies. ..."

No excess mutations in the children of Chernobyl survivors, new study finds | Science | AAAS

Here is the link to the underlying research article:

Lack of transgenerational effects of ionizing radiation exposure from the Chernobyl accident (open access)