''PLOS Genetics'' is a peer-reviewed open access

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journal established in 2005 and published by the

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. The founding

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was Wayne N. Frankel (

Columbia University Medical Center NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center (NYP/CUIMC), also known as the Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), is an academic medical center and the largest campus of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. It includes C ...

). The current editors-in-chief are Gregory S. Barsh ( HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology and Stanford University School of Medicine) and Gregory P. Copenhaver (

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). The journal covers research on all aspects of

genetics Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.Hartl D, Jones E (2005) It is an important branch in biology because heredity is vital to organisms' evolution. Gregor Mendel, a Moravian Augustinian friar wor ...

and genomics.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 5.917.

Research Prize

Since its tenth year of publication, the journal annually awards the $5000 ''PLOS Genetics Research Prize'' for the best paper published in the previous year based on nominations from members of the genetics community.

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