The ''Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics'' is a peer-reviewed

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published by Annual Reviews since 2000. It releases an annual volume of

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s relevant to the fields of

genomics Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes as well as its hierarchical, three-dim ...

and

human genetics Human genetics is the study of inheritance as it occurs in human beings. Human genetics encompasses a variety of overlapping fields including: classical genetics, cytogenetics, molecular genetics, biochemical genetics, genomics, population gene ...

Aravinda Chakravarti Aravinda Chakravarti (born 6 February 1954, Calcutta) is a human geneticist and expert in computational biology, and Director of the Center For Human Genetics & Genomics at New York University. He was the 2008 President of the American Society ...

and Eric D. Green have been the journal's co-

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since 2005. As of 2022, it has a 2021

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of 9.340.

History

The ''Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics'' was first published in 2000. The nonprofit publisher Annual Reviews decided that its existing journals of the ''

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'' and ''

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'' were shifting their coverage from biochemical genetics to molecular interpretation; the new journal could focus on the intersection of genetics and medicine. Another impetus for forming the journal was the then-ongoing

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to map the

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. The founding

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was

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, who stayed in the role through 2004. Though it was initially in publication with a print volume, it is now only published electronically.

Scope and indexing

The ''Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics'' defines its scope as covering significant developments in the field of

that are relevant to

and the

. Included subfields are human

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s, individualized medicine,

human genetic variation Human genetic variation is the genetic differences in and among populations. There may be multiple variants of any given gene in the human population (alleles), a situation called polymorphism. No two humans are genetically identical. Even m ...

, the structure and function of genomes,

genetic engineering Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification or genetic manipulation, is the modification and manipulation of an organism's genes using technology. It is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including t ...

, and

human evolution Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of ''Homo sapiens'' as a distinct species of the hominid family, which includes the great apes. This process involved the gradual development of ...

. As of 2022, ''

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'' lists the journal's

as 9.340, ranking it twelfth of 175 journal titles in the category "Genetics & Heredity". It is

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, and

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Editorial processes

The ''Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics'' is helmed by the editor or the co-editors. The editor is assisted by the editorial committee, which includes associate editors, regular members, and occasionally guest editors. Guest members participate at the invitation of the editor, and serve terms of one year. All other members of the editorial committee are appointed by the Annual Reviews board of directors and serve five-year terms. The editorial committee determines which topics should be included in each volume and solicits reviews from qualified authors. Unsolicited manuscripts are not accepted.

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of accepted manuscripts is undertaken by the editorial committee.

Current editorial board

As of 2022, the editorial committee consists of the co-editors and the following members: * Wendy A. Bickmore * Robert Cook-Deegan * Nancy J. Cox * Thomas Gingeras * Pui-Yan Kwok *

Julie Makani Julie Makani (born 1970) is a Tanzanian medical researcher. From 2014 she is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Science ...

* Arnold Munnich * Mai Har Sham * Sarah A. Teichmann

References

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