Nuclear Radiation Affect Baby Gender

Latest research results argue for this belief that the effects of nuclear radiation not much affect human genetics. Indeed, nuclear radiation turned out to show a trend increase in the number of births a baby boy.

Hagen Scherb and Kristina Voigt, researchers from the Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany said that they found the fact that radiation from nuclear bomb tests and the Chernobyl accident has provided long-term negative effects for local people especially in the birth ratio of boys and girls.

In the study, they found that a high-born men than women in Europe and the United States between 1964 and 1975. "Possible cause is exposure to radiation from nuclear bomb testing before such testing was banned in 1963," say two researchers, as quoted by TGDaily, May 31, 2011.

Such trials, say the researchers, affect many human populations after a pause for some time.

From the research, they also found a significant jump in the birth of a baby boy in Europe in 1987 or one year after the Chernobyl disaster. The trend does not occur in the United States are not much affected by Chernobyl radiation.

The imbalance of the number of births of men and women also appear significantly among human populations living within a radius of 35 kilometers of existing nuclear facilities in Germany and Switzerland.

"Our results argue for this belief that hereditary effects due to nuclear radiation has not been detected in human populations," say two researchers. "We found strong evidence that the presence of genetic disorders due to radiation," they said.