Citation

Huong TT, Szentesi I, Czeizel AE. Mutat. Res. 1988; 198(1): 255-259.

Affiliation

Department of Human Genetics and Teratology, National Institute of Hygiene, Budapest, Hungary.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3352630

Abstract

A cytogenetic investigation was conducted in 18 self-poisoned pregnant and 16 self-poisoned non-pregnant women and in 31 pregnant and non-pregnant controls. Blood samples for analysis of chromosomal aberrations and SCEs were collected from women who were at different early stages of pregnancy. The difference between self-poisoned women and controls was very highly significant in the case of chromatid-type and unstable chromosome-type aberrations and highly significant in the case of SCEs. Further, the frequency of chromatid aberrations in pregnant women relative to non-pregnant ones was significantly lower suggesting a possible protective effect of pregnancy.

Language: en