The third year as Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Human Genetics is over. The Impact Factor has remained at a similar level (2.487). The Journal of Human Genetics published 158 papers in 2016. We prepared a special issue describing non-coding RNAs in human diseases in 2016, which was published in January 2017. I would like to express my appreciation to guest editors, Drs Naohiko Seki and Akira Hata, and all the contributors for their hard work. I hope the special issue will attract attention from a broad readership.
In 2016, we celebrated Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi receiving 2016’s Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine. His outstanding achievements in autophagy have opened up new research fields related to human diseases. I myself discovered disease-causing mutations of WDR45 encoding WIPI4, a core protein in autophagy. I expect more manuscripts related to autophagy in the Journal of Human Genetics.
The sister online open-access journal, Human Genome Variation, was registered in PubMed in 2016. I feel Human Genome Variation is steadily progressing.
In 2017, we are again planning a special issue. I am looking forward to it, and of course to receiving more exciting manuscripts for the Journal of Human Genetics from all over the world.
Acknowledgements
The Editor-in-Chief, on behalf of the Journal of Human Genetics 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 Journal of Human Genetics in 2016:
Alice Abdel Aleem
David Adams
Sarita Agarwal
JM Akey
Yoko Aoki
Zohar Argov
Takuro Arimura
Antonio Arnaiz-Villena
Rafael Artuch
Tomoyuki Aruga
Danillo G Augusto
Hiroyuki Awano
Anitha Ayyappan Pillai
Masaya Baba
Seiamak Bahram
Shabeesh Balan
Shanti Balasubramaniam
Roland Baron
Chiara Batini
Claire Bellis
Minako Beppu
Stephane Bezieau
Rui Bi
Gerhard Binder
Alan Bittles
Susan H Blanton
Nenad Blau
Martin Bodner
Luisa Bonafe
Jacquelyn Bond
Gisele Bonne
Chehrazade Brick
Natasha J Brown
Cristian Capelli
Luis Carvajal-Carmona
Denise Cavalcanti
Jeffrey S Chamberlain
Takeshi Chiyomaru
Murim Choi
Brian Hon-Yin Chung
Angus Clarke
Mark Corbett
Timothy M Cox
Fulvio Cruciani
Veronika Csakyova
Goran Cuturilo
Yehia Daaka
Amber Dahlin
Makoto Daimon
Diodato Daria
Mehul Dattani
Andrew Dauber
Peter De Knijff
Danny N Dhanasekaran
Kimon Divaris
Yolanda Martin Santo Domingo
Nataliya Di Donato
Rajkumar Dorajoo
Ana T Duggan
Yusuke Ebana
Simon Edvardson
Thore Egeland
Thomas Eggermann
Alison Elliott
Akihiro Fujimoto
Ken-ichi Fujita
Maki Fukami
Hiroshi Furukawa
Brenda Gerull
Lina Ghaloul-Gonzalez
Wendy A Gold
Atsushi Goto
Shin Goto
Yusuke Goto
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Nobuhiko Haga
Koichi Hagiwara
Kazuo Hara
Naoki Harada
Tomonobu Hasegawa
Nobuhiro Hata
Takaaki Hayashi
Takeharu Hayashi
Yukiko K Hayashi
Madhuri Hegde
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Naomi Hino-Fukuyo
Makito Hirano
Akira Hirasawa
Tomomitsu Hirota
Yuki Hitomi
Michi Hofreiter
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Paul Horton
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Yoshihiro Hotta
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Toshifumi Inada
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Tadashi Kaname
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Mitsuhiro Kato
Aya Kawasaki
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Matsumoto, N. A message for 2017. J Hum Genet 62, 517–519 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/jhg.2017.29
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