Furthermore, data also suggests that new studies incorporating testing principles from endocrinology and developmental epigenetics, in particular to evaluate the endocrine disruptive capability of GBH/glyphosate, should be performed to investigate potential consequences of low dose exposure during early life as well as in adults.
Today, little is known about biological and clinical consequences of low doses of I on the thyroid gland and whether they cause sufficient direct or indirect thyroid damage that could result in subclinical hypothyroidism.
This is perhaps the toughest question as the brutal truth is that no-one knows the long-term medical consequences of low-dose radiation exposure.
Since 1999, Professor Mousseau and his collaborators have explored the ecological, genetic and evolutionary consequences of low-dose radiation in populations of plants, animals and people inhabiting the Chernobyl region of Ukraine and Belarus.
Recent nuclear accidents have prompted renewed interest in the fitness consequences of low-dose radiation.
Possible carcinogenic consequences of low-dose irradiation for young mutation carriers undergoing earlier mammography screening must be considered [ 21].
Hence it is not surprising that there is a renewed proactive interest in the consequences of low-dose radiation on all organisms, including humans, under field conditions.
Although we are not aware of malignancy among children or acute health problems, it is difficult to predict the future well-being of residents because an assessment of iodine contamination was not possible because of its short half-life and because the health consequences of low-dose radiation contamination are still unknown (Tsubokura et al. 2012; WHO 2013; Yasumura et al. 2012).
The number of low dose offerings is expanding.
The strong linkage disequilibrium between Arg72Pro and polymorphisms PIN3 (P < 0.0001), rs12947788 (P = 0.0003), and rs12951053 (P = 0.0003) confirms the findings of other studies [ 63, 64] and demonstrates that the modification serves as a marker of susceptibility and not as a consequence of mutational low doses of ionizing radiation.
