Trends in the human sex odds at birth in Europe and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident

The human sex odds at birth after the atmospheric atomic bomb tests, after Chernobyl, and in the vicinity of nuclear facilities

“…The UNSCEAR 2001 risk translates to a relative risk per Sievert of 1.03 (= 62,000/ 60,000). In sharp contrast to that, our estimated effects are in the order of magnitude of 1.50/mSv per year for birth defects and stillbirths and 1.02/mSv per year for the sex odds (Scherb and Voigt 2007;Scherb and Weigelt 2003). Fig.…”

“…Our results concerning uniform exposures of very large populations consistently show increased sex odds. Moreover, this increase of the male proportion turned out to be dose dependent at the ecological level (Scherb and Voigt 2007). Dubrova et al (2002) reported that the paternal mutation rate at eight minisatellite loci in exposed families from Ukraine is elevated, and they found no evidence of elevated mutation rates in the germline of exposed mothers: "A statistically significant 1.6-fold increase in the paternal mutation rate was found in the exposed families from Ukraine, whereas maternal mutation rate in this cohort was not elevated."…”

“…More specifically, superimposed on a downward trend in male proportions in the combined Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Poland, and Sweden between 1982 and 1992, there was a significant upward jump in the sex odds in 1987 of 0.47%. A positive association of the male proportion in Germany between 1986 and 1991 with radioactive exposure at the district level is reflected by an increase in the sex odds of 1.45%/mSv per year (Scherb and Voigt 2007). Consequently, a long-term chronic impact of radioactive fallout on the secondary sex odds has been found.…”

Fiziksel ve kimyasal etkenlere maruziyet doğumlardaki cinsiyet oranını etkileyebilir mi?

“…[46] Diğer İlerleyen yaşın sperm parametrelerine etkilerinin araştırıl-dığı bir çalışmada, 4822 semen örneği incelenmiş ve 259 FISH analizi yapılmıştır. Sonuç olarak, 34 yaşından sonra toplam sperm sayısı ve motil sperm sayısında gerileme olduğu görülmüştür.…”

Adverse genetic effects induced by chemical or physical environmental pollution

“…The failure of the scientific community worldwide to look at the sex odds after Chernobyl is a staircase wit of history. We investigated trends in the sex odds before and after the Chernobyl accident (1982)(1983)(1984)(1985)(1986)(1987)(1988)(1989)(1990)(1991)(1992) in several European countries and found a significant jump in the sex odds trends after Chernobyl (Scherb and Voigt 2007). In this Issue of "Environmental Science and Pollution Research," we show a distorted sex odds in all of Europe analyzing trends from 1975 to 2007.…”