# REV-010 — Mapping the evidence on RF exposure and genetic damage

Collection: Reviews & proposed mechanisms (not an original experiment)

Doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1613353

Title: A scoping review and evidence map of radiofrequency field exposure and genotoxicity: assessing in vivo, in vitro, and epidemiological data

Authors: Steven G Weller; Julie E McCredden; Victor Leach; Cordia Chu; Alfred King-Yin Lam

Date: 2025-07-30

Issueyear: 2025

Why: Mapping many experiments can reveal recurring exposure conditions and endpoints that deserve closer investigation.

Summary: Maps over 500 RF/genotoxicity studies across cell, animal and epidemiological evidence; reports patterns involving duration, signal type and biological markers and raises concern about possible genotoxicity.

Limitations: Evidence mapping and counts of significant findings are not a pooled causal risk estimate. Higher-quality studies showed fewer significant effects; funding-outcome associations do not establish misconduct or explain each result.

Scope: A scoping review mapping 530 publications reporting 536 studies across in-vivo, in-vitro and epidemiological RF/genotoxicity research.

Exposures: Radiofrequency; Mobile telephony

Journal: Frontiers in public health

Heading: Mapping the evidence on RF exposure and genetic damage

Id: REV-010

Kind: Scoping review

Topics: DNA damage; Exposure duration; Signal modulation

Links: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1613353; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40809778/; https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12343714/

Author: Weller et al.

Access Label: Original-text passages checked

Source Check: Full text: introduction and conclusion/limitations passages checked; metadata/abstract also checked. Linked PubMed/Europe PMC notice records checked on 21 October 2026; this is not a guarantee that every editorial update is indexed.

Citation: Steven G Weller; Julie E McCredden; Victor Leach; Cordia Chu; Alfred King-Yin Lam. A scoping review and evidence map of radiofrequency field exposure and genotoxicity: assessing in vivo, in vitro, and epidemiological data. Frontiers in public health. 2025. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2025.1613353.

Related Studies: RF-005; RF-016; RF-045

Url: /reviews/rev-010/

Year: 2025

Record Type: review_or_mechanism

Source Url: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1613353