Looking back and looking forward

نویسندگان

  • Maximilian Muenke
  • Suzanne Hart
چکیده

This year Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine (MGGM) turns 5 years old. For the editors of this journal it is time for some reflection, “looking back and looking forward”. The first issue appeared in May of 2013, 60 years after the publication by Watson and Crick’s discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA and 10 years after the completion of the Human Genome Project. The work for this journal began 1 year earlier with the selection of the Founding Editor-in-Chief (EIC) Max Muenke, choice of a journal title, and the Aims and Scope of the journal. Initial options for titles included Human & Medical Genetics, Medical Genetics & Genomic Medicine, and a few others, before Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine became the top choice. Suzanne Hart was chosen as Deputy Editor-in-Chief in part because of her expertise that is different from the EIC. Twenty-four colleagues (10 female and 14 male) with a wide range of expertise from 15 different countries were invited to serve on the MGGM Editorial Board. The Aims and Scope of MGGM were and are broad, to encompass a wide range of topics including basic and translational science, technological advances, human and medical genetics, animal models of human disease, pharmacogenomics and translational medicine (Muenke, 2013). From the first Editorial to the Invited Commentaries in each issue, various aspects of genomic medicine have been illustrated: integration of genomic information into the delivery of health care (De Castro & Turner, 2017; Eng, 2013; Francke, 2013; Slavotinek, 2016; Solomon, 2016; Williams, 2015), educational opportunities (Hart & Hart, 2016; Korf, 2013; McCarthy, 2014; Muenke, 2016), genomic counseling (Middleton, Hall, & Patch, 2015; Ormond, 2013); diverse populations (Adeyemo & Rotimi, 2014), ethical considerations (Wilfond & Goddard, 2015; one of the 10 most highly cited articles in MGGM, see below), comparative genomics (Mullikin, 2014), and many more including specific groups of diseases: newborn screening (Levy, 2014); substance use disorders (Rutter & Volkow, 2014); hearing loss (Pandya, 2016); orofacial clefting (Adeyemo & Butali, 2017), and stuttering (Frierio-Domingues & Drayna, 2017). Some of my personal (M.M.) highlights were those articles celebrating the sesquicentennial anniversary of Johann Gregor Mendel (De Castro, 2016; Opitz & Bianchi, 2015), including an essay by Mendel’s great-great-grandnephew, the Augustinian monk Father Clemens Richter (Richter, 2015). Another regular feature of MGGM that started in 2014, the series on “Genetics and Genomic Medicine Around the World”, is certainly among our favorites. It was our hope that this series “will be an invaluable sounding board for learning how different countries and cultures view and adopt genetic and genomic testing” (Hart & Muenke, 2014). To date, this has been the longest running such series when compared to any other genetics journal. We have learned from two dozen countries: small (Cuba, Ecuador, Macedonia, Paraguay, Rwanda, Slovakia) and large (India, Maximilian Muenke, Founding Editor-in-Chief

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دوره 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2018