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Chernobyl: an overlooked aspect?Keith Baverstock
Science 299:44. 2003- Chernobyl and the future: too soon for a final diagnosisDillwyn Williams
Thyroid Carcinogenesis Research Group, Strangeways Research Laboratories, Worts Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN, UK
Nature 440:993-4. 2006 - The Chernobyl accident 20 years on: an assessment of the health consequences and the international responseKeith Baverstock
Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, 70211, Finland
Cien Saude Colet 12:689-98. 2007..These should involve independent scientists and ensure cooperation rather than rivalry... 
The chernobyl accident 20 years on: an assessment of the health consequences and the international responseKeith Baverstock
Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
Environ Health Perspect 114:1312-7. 2006..Accurate assessment of the consequences is important to the current debate on nuclear power...- The recognition of childhood thyroid cancer as a consequence of the Chernobyl accident: an allegorical tale of our time?Keith Baverstock
Department of Environmental Science, University of Kuopio, PL 1627 70211, Kuopio, Finland
J R Soc Med 100:407-9. 2007 - Epigenetic regulation of the mammalian cellKeith Baverstock
Department of Environmental Science, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland
PLoS ONE 3:e2290. 2008..Phenotype is represented by high dimensional attractors, evolutionarily conditioned for stability and robustness and contingent on rules of engagement between gene products encoded in the genetic network... - The UK Committee on Radioactive Waste ManagementKeith Baverstock
Department of Environmental Science, University of Kuopio, PL 1627, 70211 Kuopio, Finland
J Radiol Prot 25:313-20. 2005..Furthermore, given also the immense importance of this decision to public safety, national security and the national interest, we believe urgent steps should be taken to review the Committee's process, its management and its sponsorship... - Classical radiation biology, the bystander effect and paradigms: a replyKeith Baverstock
Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences, University of Kuopio, Finland
Hum Exp Toxicol 24:537-42. 2005..In particular this framework will encompass the epigenetic as well as genetic aspects of radiation biology. Examples of how this might be achieved are given... - Science, politics and ethics in the low dose debateKeith Baverstock
Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Kuopio, Finland
Med Confl Surviv 21:88-100. 2005..It is concluded that for science to be useful in public health policy making there needs to be some reform from within the profession and the political imperative for freely independent scientific institutions... 
Some important questions connected with non-targeted effectsKeith Baverstock
Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences, University of Kuopio, 70211 Kuopio, Finland
Mutat Res 687:84-8. 2010....- Why do we need a new paradigm in radiobiology?Keith Baverstock
Department of Environmental Science, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, PL 1627, 70211 Kuopio, Finland
Mutat Res 687:3-6. 2010..Such processes are termed type B events and give rise to a separate category of effects and risk to those associated with the conventional effects of radiation, type A effects. How type B risks might be assessed is discussed... - The 2003 NRPB report on UK nuclear-test veteransKeith Baverstock
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Environmental Sciences, University of Kuopio, FIN-70211, Kuopio, Finland
Lancet 361:1759-60. 2003 - Towards a unifying theory of late stochastic effects of ionizing radiationKeith Baverstock
Department of Environmental Science, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, PL 1627, 70211 Kuopio, Finland
Mutat Res 718:1-9. 2011..This approach unifies at a fundamental level the heritable and late somatic effects of radiation into a single causal framework that has the potential to be extended to the effects of the other environmental agents damaging to health... - Radiation-induced genomic instability in Caenorhabditis elegansKatriina Huumonen
Department of Environmental Science, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Mutat Res 748:36-41. 2012..To the best of our knowledge, this is the first publication reporting radiation-induced genomic instability in C. elegans... - The long-term management of nuclear emergencies: the principlesKeith Baverstock
Department of Environmental Science, University of Kuopio, FIN 70211 Kuopio, Finland
Radiat Prot Dosimetry 109:3-5. 2004..An essential component in further developing such a plan would be a thorough review of the experience of the Chernobyl accident in order to 'learn the lessons' that accident holds... - A comparison of two cell regulatory models entailing high dimensional attractors representing phenotypeKeith Baverstock
Department of Environmental Science, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus, 70211 Kuopio, Finland
Prog Biophys Mol Biol 106:443-9. 2011..If correct there are important implications for understanding how environmental factors impact on evolution and may be implicated in hereditary and somatic disease... - Comment on papers on NRPB study of the UK test veteransKeith Baverstock
J Radiol Prot 25:197-9; author reply 199-201. 2005 - The use of effective dose in retrospective dose assessmentKeith Baverstock
Health Phys 85:110-1; author reply 111-2. 2003 - Comments on the recent ICRP proposalsKeith Baverstock
J Radiol Prot 22:423-4. 2002 - Muller's ratchet hypothesisKeith Baverstock
Lancet 364:1213. 2004 - Committee on Radioactive Waste Management lacks medical inputKeith Baverstock
BMJ 331:1409. 2005