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Overview

Yuri E. Dubrova is affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with particular attention to molecular biology as a subfield. Their work also spans medicine, sociology and political science, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and cancer research.

Their main research topics include DNA repair mechanisms, effects of radiation exposure, radiation therapy and dosimetry, radioactive contamination and transfer, risk perception and management, nuclear issues and defense, and glutathione transferases and polymorphisms.

Yuri E. Dubrova has published several papers recently, including:

  • From tangled banks to toxic bunnies; a reflection on the issues involved in developing an ecosystem approach for environmental radiation protection, 2020, International Journal of Radiation Biology
  • Radiation-induced transgenerational effects in animals, 2020, International Journal of Radiation Biology
  • The effects of DNA repair polymorphisms on chromosome aberrations in the population of Kazakhstan, 2020, International Journal of Radiation Biology
  • No evidence of increased mutations in the germline of a group of British nuclear test veterans, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • The long-term effects of exposure to ionising radiation on gene expression in mice, 2020, Mutation Research. Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Elena I. Sarapultseva
  • Nicolas Sylvius
  • Carmel Mothersill
  • Deborah Oughton
  • Paul N. Schofield

Yuri E. Dubrova has contributed predominantly to publications in the International Journal of Radiation Biology, with three papers, as well as Scientific Reports and Mutation Research. Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis.

Best Publications

  • Y-Chromosomal Diversity in Europe Is Clinal and Influenced Primarily by Geography, Rather than by Language

    Zoë H. Rosser;Tatiana Zerjal;Matthew E. Hurles;Maarja Adojaan

  • Human minisatellite mutation rate after the Chernobyl accident

    Yuri E. Dubrova;Yuri E. Dubrova;Valeri N. Nesterov;Nicolay G. Krouchinsky;Valdislav A. Ostapenko

  • Critical Evaluation of ECV304 as a Human Endothelial Cell Model Defined by Genetic Analysis and Functional Responses: A Comparison with the Human Bladder Cancer Derived Epithelial Cell Line T24/83

    Julia Brown;Sarah J Reading;Sarah Jones;Caroline J Fitchett

  • Elevated mutation rates in the germ line of first- and second-generation offspring of irradiated male mice

    Ruth Barber;Mark A. Plumb;Emma Boulton;Isabelle Roux

  • Mouse minisatellite mutations induced by ionizing radiation

    Yuri E. Dubrova;Alec J. Jeffreys;Alexey M. Malashenko

  • Transgenerational mutation by radiation

    Yuri E. Dubrova;Yuri E. Dubrova;Mark Plumb;Bruno Gutierrez;Emma Boulton

  • Radiation-induced transgenerational instability

    Yuri E Dubrova

  • Further evidence for elevated human minisatellite mutation rate in Belarus eight years after the Chernobyl accident

    Yuri E. Dubrova;Valeri N. Nesterov;Nicolay G. Krouchinsky;Vladislav A. Ostapenko

  • Stage specificity, dose response, and doubling dose for mouse minisatellite germ-line mutation induced by acute radiation

    Yuri E. Dubrova;Mark Plumb;Julia Brown;Jan Fennelly

  • Elevated Minisatellite Mutation Rate in the Post-Chernobyl Families from Ukraine

    Yuri E. Dubrova;Gemma Grant;Anatoliy A. Chumak;Vasyl A. Stezhka

  • Nuclear Weapons Tests and Human Germline Mutation Rate

    Yuri E. Dubrova;Rakhmet I. Bersimbaev;Leila B. Djansugurova;Maira K. Tankimanova

  • Radiation-induced transgenerational alterations in genome stability and DNA damage

    Ruth C. Barber;Peter Hickenbotham;T. Hatch;D. Kelly

  • Wheat mutation rate after Chernobyl

    Olga Kovalchuk;Yuri E. Dubrova;Andrey Arkhipov;Barbara Hohn

  • The genome-wide effects of ionizing radiation on mutation induction in the mammalian germline

    Adeolu B. Adewoye;Sarah J. Lindsay;Yuri E. Dubrova;Matthew E. Hurles

  • A novel single molecule analysis of spontaneous and radiation-induced mutation at a mouse tandem repeat locus

    Carole L. Yauk;Yuri E. Dubrova;Gemma R. Grant;Alec J. Jeffreys

  • Radiation-induced germline instability at minisatellite loci

    Y E Dubrova;M Plumb;J Brown;A J Jeffreys

  • Germline mutation induction at mouse repeat DNA loci by chemical mutagens.

    Carles Vilariño-Güell;Andrew G Smith;Yuri E Dubrova

  • Exposure to anticancer drugs can result in transgenerational genomic instability in mice

    Colin D. Glen;Yuri E. Dubrova

  • The offspring of irradiated parents, are they stable?

    Ruth C. Barber;Yuri E. Dubrova

  • A novel unstable mouse VNTR family expanded from SINE B1 elements.

    Philippe Bois;Jill Williamson;Julia Brown;Yuri E. Dubrova

Frequent Co-Authors

Alec J. Jeffreys
Alec J. Jeffreys University of Leicester
Olga Kovalchuk
Olga Kovalchuk University of Lethbridge
Maj Hultén
Maj Hultén University of Warwick
Carole L. Yauk
Carole L. Yauk University of Ottawa
Igor Kovalchuk
Igor Kovalchuk University of Lethbridge
Mark A. Jobling
Mark A. Jobling University of Leicester
Matthew E. Hurles
Matthew E. Hurles Wellcome Sanger Institute
Marvin L. Meistrich
Marvin L. Meistrich The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
David M. DeMarini
David M. DeMarini Environmental Protection Agency
James R. Lupski
James R. Lupski Baylor College of Medicine

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