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Does carcinogenic potency correlate with mutagenic potency in the Ames assay?

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Bruce Ames and Kim Hooper reply to a recent criticism of their inquiry into the relation between mutagenic potency in the Ames test and carcinogenic potency.

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Ames, B., Hooper, K. Does carcinogenic potency correlate with mutagenic potency in the Ames assay?. Nature 274, 19–20 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/274019a0

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