Welcome to Heredity

Heredity is an official journal of the Genetics Society, and publishes original research in all areas of genetics, complemented by News & Commentary articles and reviews keeping researchers and students abreast of hot topics.

To hear about the research in the words of the scientists themselves, listen to the Heredity podcasts.
Check the Heredity forum for debate on hot articles or to air your views on anything published in the journal.

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Volume 101, No 3
September 2008
ISSN: 0018-067X
EISSN: 1365-2540

2007 impact factor 4.065*
38/132 Genetics & Heredity

Managing editor:
R Nichols

* Journal Citation Reports, Thomson Reuters, 2008

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Welcome to the Heredity Podcasts

Each month Elli Leadbeater and Steve Le Comber present a free audio show. The podcast features interviews with the people behind the science and a digest of breaking news from Heredity editor Richard Nichols at Queen Mary University of London
Heredity Podcast