''Human Mutation'' is a peer-reviewed medical journal of

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 ...

published by Wiley-Liss on behalf of the Human Genome Variation Society. It first appeared in 1992. The founding

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were Haig H. Kazazian and Richard G.H. Cotton. Cotton served until his death in 2015, latterly with Garry R. Cutting, who became sole EIC. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 4.878, ranking it 44th out of 176 journals in the category "Genetics & Heredity".

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Human Genome Variation Society
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