Welcome to the first 2012 issue of the Journal of Human Genetics (JHG).
It would be obvious to most readers that in recent times, we have been publishing a greater number of papers submitted from countries other than Japan. More importantly, more papers are being submitted from regions relatively new to research in the field of human genetics and, encouragingly, these are also being published in JHG. I really welcome this trend. I think this is also a good reflection of the journal’s improved visibility, especially on the internet, which is proved by the 40% increase of regular visitors to the journal’s site compared with 3 years ago, before JHG’s new era started with Nature Publishing Group. JHG is growing.
In 2012, to ensure that the journal continues to grow, I would like to start thinking about new strategies that will take JHG onto the ‘next stage’. JHG still has a lot of room for further improvement and growth to be a truly international premier journal of human genetics whilst remaining an official journal of the Japan Society of Human Genetics. We need to consider ways to successfully achieve our future goals and also attract a greater number of high-quality submissions. To further improve the efficiency in the editorial and peer-reviewing processes, to review the journal’s scope and define the journal’s goals, with a priority for future growth, are the important tasks for us in this coming year. Through active discussion among the editors and parent society members, I would like to develop the best methods to accomplish these tasks. Of course, I would also be happy to receive ideas and feedback from our readers and authors.
I thank all of our authors, readers and reviewers for their kind and continued participation.
Here’s to another busy year in 2012. A very happy New Year!
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 papers submitted to JHG in 2011:
Achilli, Alessandro
Adzhubei, Ivan
Antonini, Sonir Rauber
Arai, Masami
Arakawa, Hirofumi
Ariga, Tadashi
Arimura, Takuro
Arinami, Tadao
Ayub, Qasim
Bae, Joon Seol
Baillie, George
Bali, Deeksha
Barbujani, Guido
Behari, Madhuri
Bergen, Sarah E
Berumen, Jaime
Bonne, Gisele
Brancati, Francesco
Branicki, Wojciech
Bravi, Claudio M
Brophy, Patrick
Bunyavanich, Supinda
Burger, Joachim
Burns, Jane C
Calafell, Francesc
Cao, Antonio
Capelli, Cristian
Carninci, Piero
Cha, Pei-Chieng
Chaiyaratana, Nachol
Chan, Jonathan H
Chung, Yeun-Jun
Clarke, Angus
Cox, Murray P
Crubezy, Eric
Dai, Jin
de Luca, Alessandro
de Nanclares, Guiomar Perez
de Vivo, Darryl
Delanty, Norman
Emre, Serap
Endo, Fumio
Ezura, Yoichi
Fanin, Marina
Filippo, Cesare
Fogli, Anne
Fuchang, Zhang
Fujimoto, Akihiro
Fujita, Tomoe
Fukumaki, Yasuyuki
Funayama, Manabu
Furukawa, Yoichi
Galfalvy, Hanga
Gojobori, Jun
Goloni-Bertollo, Eny Maria
Goto, Yu-Ichi
Guan, Minxin
Haga, Nobuhiko
Hamada, Hiromichi
Harada, Naoki
Hasegawa, Tomonobu
Hashimoto, Ryota
Hata, Ken-ichirou
Hayasaka, Kiyoshi
Hayashi, Shin
Hayashi, Yukiko
Heyer, Evelyne
Hildebrand, Michael S
Hirasawa, Akira
Hiratsuka, Masahiko
Hishimoto, Akitoyo
Hiyama, Toru
Hofreiter, Michael
Horikawa, Yukio
Hosoi, Takayuki
Hotta, Kikuko
Ihara, Kenji
Iijima, Kazumoto
Ikeda, Akio
Ikegawa, Shiro
Ikezono, Tetsuo
Imoto, Issei
Inoue, Ituro
Inoue, Jun
Ishikawa, Kinya
Ishikawa, Shumpei
Ishioka, Chikashi
Isomura, Minoru
Iwamoto, Sadahiko
Iwasaki, Naoko
Iwasaki, Satoshi
Jezewski, Peter
Johnson, Todd Andrew
Jongjaroenprasert, Wallaya
Kamatani, Naoyuki
Kamatani, Yoichiro
Kamide, Kei
Kaname, Tadashi
Karasugi, Tatsuki
Katagiri, Toyomasa
Kato, Mitsuhiro
Kato, Tadafumi
Katsuya, Tomohiro
Katsuyama, Hironobu
Kawakami, Kiyoshi
Kawame, Hiroshi
Keicho, Naoto
Kidd, Kenneth K
Kido, Hiroshi
Kimura, Akinori
Kishino, Tatsuya
Kitajiri, Shin-ichiro
Knijff, Peter
Kobashi, Gen
Kobayashi, Kazuhiro
Kochi, Yuta
Kohara, Katsuhiko
Koizumi, Akio
Kong, Qing-Ping
Kosaki, Kenjiro
Koshimizu, T
Kosho, Tomoki
Kotzot, Dieter
Koyama, Satomi
Kubota, Takeo
Kumasaka, Natsuhiko
Kurahashi, Hiroki
Kure, Shigeo
Kurosawa, Kenji
Kurosawa, Motohiro
Lao, Oscar
Lau, Yu-Lung
Lee, Ming Ta Michael
Lewis, Cathryn
Li, Hui
Li, Ling-Hui
Li, Shengbin
Li, Wei
Lin, Dongxin
Liu, Xue Zhong
Ma, Qing
Maeda, Jun
Maeda, Shiro
Mahasirimongkol, Surakameth
Mahdieh, Nejat
Makita, Yoshio
Malhi, Ripan S
Malyarchuk, Boris A
Mann, Kathy
Mano, Shuhei
Marioni, RE
Masuda, Satohiro
Masumoto, Hiroshi
Mathur, Premendu Prakash
Matsubara, Yoichi
Matsuda, Koichi
Matsunaga, Tatsuo
Matsushita, Kazuyuki
McElreavey, Ken
Miki, Takashi
Minerva, Carrasquillo
Misawa, Kazuharu
Miura, Masatomo
Miyata, Satoshi
Miyazaki, Tatsuhiko
Mizuno, Toshiki
Mizuta, Ikuko
Morisaki, Hiroko
Morishita, Shinnichi
Mundlos, Stefan
Murakami, Yoshinori
Muramatsu, Masaaki
Mushiroda, Taisei
Mutirangura, Apiwat
Muto, Masahiko
Muzzio, Marina
Nabika, Toru
Nakagawa, Hidewaki
Nakagawa, Masanori
Nakagome, Shigeki
Nakajima, Atsushi
Nakajima, Toshiaki
Nakamura, Kimitoshi
Nakano, Yoshiro
Nakazawa, Mitsuru
Nawa, Hiroyuki
Nemer, Georges
Niikawa, Norio
Nikawa, Ken
Nishimura, Gen
Nishino, Ichizo
Noguchi, Emiko
Nothnagel, Michael
Nuchnoi, Pornlada
Ogimoto, Akiyoshi
Oh, Bermseok
Ohashi, Hirofumi
Ohashi, Jun
Ohira, Miki
Ohta, Tohru
Okada, Yukinori
Okamoto, Nobuhiko
Olivieri, Anna
Onodera, Osamu
Onouchi, Yoshihiro
Onuma, Hiroshi
Oppenheimer, Stephen
Osawa, Haruhiko
Oven, Mannis van
Ozaki, Kouichi
Ozawa, Nobuaki
Paisan-Ruiz, Coro
Parisiadou, Loukia
Park, Ji Wan
Pereira, Luisa
Perera, M
Poloni, Estella S
Rao, Lakshmi
Ray, Kunal
Reuser, Arnold
Rickards, Olga
Sáenz, Amets
Saitoh, Shinji
Saitou, Naruya
Saitsu, Hirotomo
Sakai, Norio
Sakamoto, Osamu
Sakurai, Akihiro
Salas, Antonio
Sasaki, Hidenao
Satake, Wataru
Sato, Shinichi
Sediva, Anna
Seeman, Pavel
Seki, Naohiko
Sengupta, Sanghamitra
Sharma, Swarkar
Shaw, Philip
Shi, Hong
Shimizu, Norikazu
Shimozawa, Nobuyuki
Shinozawa, Keiko
Shintaku, Haruo
Sinha, Pratima
Song, Kyuyoung
Sorimachi, Hiroyuki
Stanislawska-Sachadyn, Anna
Steinlein, Ortrud K
Su, Bing
Suchanek, Renata
Sueoka, Kou
Sugano, Kokichi
Sugie, Hideo
Suktitipat, Bhoom
Sun, Chang
Sun, Xueying
Suriyapol, Prapat
Suzuki, Akari
Suzuki, Tamio
Suzuki, Yasuyuki
Suzuki, Yoichi
Tabara, Yasuharu
Tajima, Atsushi
Tajima, Go
Takeshita, Haruo
Takeuchi, Fumihiko
Tamari, Mayumi
Tamiya, Gen
Tamura, Kazuo
Tanaka, Toshihiro
Tang, Nelson
Tang, Tiong Yang
Taniguchi, Yoshihito
Tashiro, Kei
Taylor, Robert W
Thangaraj, Kumarasamy
Thiele, Susanne
Tim, Chew Fook
Tomatsu, Shunji
Tomita, Hiroaki
Trejaut, Jean Alain
Tsuchiya, Naoyuki
Tsujikawa, Motokazu
Tsukaguchi, Yasuhiro
Tsunoda, Tatsuhiko
Usami, Shin-ichi
Vatta, Matteo
Villard, Laurent
Vona, Giuseppe
Wada, Takahito
Wadelius, M
Wang, Wei
Watanabe, Atsushi
Wei, Qingyi
Wiklund, Fredrik
Wilson, James F
Wolf, Herman Maximilian
Wu, Bailin
Wu, Ying
Xu, Shuhua
Yamada, Ryo
Yamada, Yoshiji
Yamaguchi-Kabata, Yumi
Yamakawa, Kazuhiro
Yamakawa-Kobayashi, Kimiko
Yamamoto, Ken
Yamamoto, Koujirou
Yamamoto, Toshiyuki
Yang, Zhenglin
Yao, Yong-Gang
Yasuda, Kazuki
Yen, Pauline
Yin, G
Yin, Jiaoyang
Yokoi, Sana
Yokoi, Tsuyoshi
Yoshida, Kiyotsugu
Yoshida, Kunihiro
Yoshida, Masaru
Yoshikawa, Takeo
Yoshimura, Kunihiko
Yoshiura, Koh-ichiro
Zappavigna, Vincenzo
Zhou, Gangqiao
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Tokunaga, K. New Year’s Greetings. J Hum Genet 57, 1–2 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/jhg.2011.141
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