It is already 3 months since we celebrated a new year. This is a belated annual greeting from the editorial office sharing with the readers some updates and changes of the Journal of Human Genetics (JHG).
2015 was the second year of my term as the Editor-in-Chief. I was happy to see our journal steadily growing year by year. Last year, we received 15% more submissions than in the previous year. I was also pleased to see overall quality of the papers submitted to the JHG is becoming better, allowing us to be more selective in reviewing and choosing paper for publication. I am convinced that all 123 papers published in 2015 are of great quality.
In the November 2015 issue, and the January issue this year, JHG has published special collections of invited papers solicited under specific scientific themes entitled ‘Human Immune System Diversity and its Implications in Diseases’ and ‘Cardiovascular Genetics’, respectively. Both collections were received very well, having nearly 30% more visitors (than month average in 2015) to the journal website. I am grateful to the guest editors who helped to coordinate these special contents, and would like to continue publishing good collection of papers of the various topics. We are planning to do one more special section later this year.
JHG’s sister journal Human Genome Variation (HGV), in its early third year now, is also growing fast. Having indexed in PubMed recently, it should become more attractive place for authors to share gene variation reports.
I will strive further to enhance the JHG’s contents as well as quality of daily editorial operations. The journal activities and operations are made possible by the support of all Associate Editors, Editorial Board members, reviewers and of course, authors. I hereby would like to express my deep appreciation and thanks to all of them, and ask for their continued interest and support to the journal.
We look forward to receiving exciting papers from all over the world.
Acknowledgements
The Editor-in-Chief, on behalf of the JHG Editorial Board and the Japan Society of Human Genetics, gratefully acknowledges the generous support from peer reviewers in carefully assessing manuscripts under consideration. The following individuals provided reviews of manuscripts submitted to the JHG in 2015:
Kiwamu Akagi
Fowzan Alkuraya
David Amor
Sami Amr
Brage Andresen
Hana Antonicka
Antonis Antoniou
Yoko Aoki
Takahiro Arima
Rafael Artuch
Benoit Arveiler
Karen Avraham
Qasim Ayub
Shabeesh Balan
Kristine Barlow-Stewart
John Bateman
Terri Beaty
Bruria Ben-Zeev
Minako Beppu
Antonio Bernad
Louise Bicknell
Kim Blake
Nenad Blau
Michael Brigg
Wesley Brooks
Carmen L Cadilla
Cristian Capelli
Viktor Cerny
Paul Chapple
Gyaneshwer Chaubey
Chalisa Cheepsunthorn
Di Chen
Natsuko Chiba
Arul Chinnaiyan
Brian Hon-Yin Chung
Angus Clarke
Jonathan Covault
Murray Cox
Tim Cundy
Sumito Dateki
Peter De Knijff
Huo Dezheng
Rajkumar Dorajoo
Yusuke Ebana
Dorota Fiszer
Jia Nee Foo
Francesca Forzano
Thomas Friedman
Akihiro Fujimoto
Ken-ichi Fujita
Maki Fukami
Toshiyuki Fukao
Koya Fukunaga
Michinori Funato
Manabu Funayama
Hiroshi Furukawa
Daniel Gale
Bo Gao
Wendy Gold
Antonio Gonzßlez-Martfn
Yu-ichiGoto
Nobuhiko Haga
Naoki Harada
Tomonobu Hasegawa
Ryota Hashimoto
Tomoko Hashimoto-Tamaoki
Ken-ichirou Hata
Kenshi Hayashi
Shin Hayashi
Yukiko Hayashi
Karen Heath
Karen E Heath
Ute Hehr
Bruyere Helene
Chew-Kiat Heng
Shinichi Hirose
Asahara Hiroshi
Tomomitsu Hirota
Yuki Hitomi
Nobuyuki Hizawa
Lies Hoefsloot
Kyong Sue Hong
Paul Horton
Kazuyoshi Hosomichi
Yoshihiro Hotta
Yiping Hou
Muhammad Hussain
Shingo Ichimiya
Aritoshi Iida
Kazumoto Iijima
Masashi Ikeda
Shiro Ikegawa
Takeshi Ikeuchi
Minako Imamura
Issei Imoto
Ituro Inoue
Jun Inoue
Naoko Ishihara
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En Kimura
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Matsumoto, N. A message for 2016. J Hum Genet 61, 467–469 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/jhg.2016.41
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