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MORTALITY IN THE CHILDREN OF ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS AND CONTROLS
James V. Neel 1, Hiroo Kato 2, and William J. Schull 3
1 Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
2 Department of Statistics, Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, Hiroshima, and Hiroshima Branch, Japanese National Institute of Health, Hiroshima, Japan
3 Center for Demographic and Population Genetics, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston, The University of Texas, Houston, Texas 77025
A continuing study of mortality rates among children born to survivors of the atomic bombings and a suitable group of controls has been updated; the average interval between birth and verification of death or survival is 17 years. The mortality experience is now based on 18,946 children liveborn to parents one or both of whom were proximally exposed, receiving jointly an estimated dose of 117 rem; 16,516 children born to distally exposed parents receiving essentially no radiation; and 17,263 children born to parents not in Hiroshima or Nagasaki at the time of the bombings. No clearly significant effect of parental exposure on child's survival can be demonstrated either by a contingency 
2 type of analysis or regression analysis. On the basis of the regression data, the minimal gametic doubling dose of radiation of this type for mutations resulting in death during (on the average) the first 17 years of life among liveborn infants conceived 0–13 years after parental exposure is estimated at 46 rem for fathers and 125 rem for mothers. On the basis of experimental data, the gametic doubling dose for chronic, low-level radiation would be expected to be three to four times this value for males and as much as 1000 rem for females.
Revised on October 24, 1973
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