Charles W. Edingtoa

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Sample the people, say around 50 to 75 from Bikini
and 100 from knewetok.
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ethod:

Easy enough to do, send blood samples to a lab,
Wili last 30 to 36 hours, preferably not frozen
but slightly cooled,

Would be pood to have a boat, with lab aboard,

incubator, media, two centrifuges. Perhaps just
separate white cells and ship them out. Whitecelis
in « medium will last 24 hours, with 40% success.

Might algo look at buccal wmears for X and Y

chromosomal aberrationa; easy procedure and worth
the additional effort.

People;

two people in the field coutd do it. It would be
good to read a few elides initially to détemnine
how many cells ara needed, and if backsround is
clear.

the reading could be a collaborative effort.

Pat

Jacobs in Honolulu (worked with Court-Brown) is
superb,
Hawait,

She could supervise at the University of

An oral summary of theee notes was given to brs, Conard and Barr about
December 1973 when Dr. Conard was at Headquarters. My general
impression of his sesesswent et the time was that there were tuo

many political problems and other lssues involved with this resettlement
to undertake tests of thio kind which themselves could raise problems.

‘Khomas ll. Roderick

Geneticist, Biomedical Programs
Division of Blomedical and
Environmental Research

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br.

Barr

MD, 655

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