Study some of cytogenetic abnormalities in people live in the south of Iraq during the war in 1991

Abstract

In a study aims to detect the cytogenetic effects of radiation on sample of southern Iraqi peoples have been exposed to during the war in 1991, by using cytogenetic tests on the lymphocytes of blood of the peoples exposed to the bombing. The study has been experimented on 50 randomly samples of exposed peoples .The result show three cases of numerical chromosomal changes )6%( and ve cases of structural chromosomal changes )10%( including inversion ,dicentric chro- mosome ,translocation and Philadelphia chromosome .No any abnormal case was de ned in control group .