Human Molecular Genetics
| Human Molecular Genetics
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| description | Peer-reviewed journal |
| Area of Expertise | Molecular biology and genetics |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Oxford University Press ( UK ) |
| First edition | 1992 |
| Frequency of publication | 26 / year |
| editor | Kay Davies, Anthony Wynshaw-Boris and Joel Hirschhorn |
| Web link | hmg.oxfordjournals.org |
| ISSN (print) | 0964-6906 |
Human Molecular Genetics , or Hum. Mol. Genet. , is an academic journal published by Oxford University Press . The first issue was published in April 1992. Currently, 26 issues are published each year. The journal publishes research articles from all areas of human molecular genetics, in particular the following topics are considered:
- Molecular basis of human genetic diseases
- Developmental genetics
- Tumor genetics
- Neurogenetics
- Chromosomes and genome structure and function
- Therapy of genetic diseases
- Stem cells in human genetic diseases
- Genome-wide association studies
- Mice and Other Models of Human Disease
- Functional genomics
The impact factor was 5,340 in 2016. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge , the journal with this impact factor ranks 32nd out of 289 journals in the biochemistry and molecular biology category and 17th out of 167 journals in the genetics and inheritance category.
Kay Davies , University of Oxford , United Kingdom, Anthony Wynshaw-Boris , University of California, San Francisco, and Joel Hirschhorn, Harvard Medical School , Boston, United States of America are chief editors .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b website of the journal ; Retrieved November 13, 2012.
- ↑ 2014 Journal Citation Reports Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2015).