First of all, I would like to express my sincere thanks for the great help and support I have received from the Associate Editors and Editorial Board members, all the reviewers, authors and readers of the Journal of Human Genetics (JHG). The past six years have been very busy but also very valuable to me as Editor-in-Chief of the journal. During this time, JHG has become much more popular around the world and we have published articles submitted from more than 45 different countries. Online visitors to the JHG website have increased by about 2.5 times over last 5 years and I hope our readers enjoyed the publication of our first two special sections on pharmacogenomics and epigenetics last year.
Now it is time to pass my duties to the new Editor-in-Chief Professor Naomichi Matsumoto. I am certain that JHG will continue to grow and become more successful under his direction, and with our new Editorial members.
Currently, I am working hard to launch a new sister journal to JHG, Human Genome Variation (HGV) supported by the Japan Society of Human Genetics and published by Nature Publishing Group. The journal is an Open Access Journal publishing short reports on new mutations/variations of disease-causative genes and their frequencies in various populations in the world, as well as original articles and reviews. I hope this new journal will also be of interest to many of the readers of JHG.
Acknowledgments
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 received from peer reviewers in carefully assessing manuscripts under consideration. The following individuals provided reviews of papers submitted to the Journal of Human Genetics in 2013:
Anzai, Naohiko
Aoki, Yoko
Ariga, Tadashi
Arima, Takahiro
Arinami, Tadao
Ariyoshi, Noritaka
Augoulea, A
Aya, Kunihiko
Ayub, Qasim
Azuma, Noriyuki
Battaglia, Agantino
Boroevich, Keith
Brivet, Michèle
Brook, David
Chaiyaratana, Nachol
Chaubey, Gyaneshwer
Chen, Zhiyong
Chen, Zhuo
Cherny, Stacey
Chiba, Natsuko
Cho, Yoon Shin
Choi, Doo-Sup
Chua, Terence
Chung, Yeun-Jun
Czamara, Darina
De Knijff, Peter
Defesche, Joep
Di Gaetano, Cornelia
Di Rienzo, Anna
Dickson, Patricia
Doi, Hiroshi
Ebana, Yusuke
Eguchi, Mariko
Escolar, Maria
Feng, Rui
Fucharoen, Suthat
Fujimoto, Akihiro
Fukami, Maki
Fukao, Toshiyuki
Fukushima, Kunihiro
Funayama, Manabu
Furukawa, Tetsushi
Ghezzi, Daniele
Goto, Jun
Goto, Yu-ichi
Grønskov, K
Grandone, E
Grasso, Marina
Guan, Min-Xin
Hamada, Hiromichi
Hasegawa, Tomonobu
Hashimoto, Ryota
Hashimoto, Tamaoki
Hashimoto, Tomoko
Hata, Ken-ichirou
Hattori, Nobutaka
Hayashi, Shin
Hayashi, Takaaki
Hayashi, Yukiko
Hayde, Karen
Hegele, Robert
Hinney, Anke
Hino, Okio
Hirankarn, Nattiya
Hirawa, Nobuhito
Hirose, Shinichi
Hirota, Tomomitsu
Hoffman, Eric
Horikawa, Yukio
Horike, Shin-ichi
Hosomichi, Kazuyoshi
Hotta, Kikuko
Ikegawa, Shiro
Ikeuchi, Takeshi
Imoto, Issei
Inai, Kei
Inoue, Ituro
Intarapanich, Apichart
Isaacs, Aaron
Ishida, Takafumi
Ishikawa, Kinya
Ishiura, Hiroyuki
Isomura, Minoru
Ito, Shuichi
Iwamoto, Sadahiko
Iwasaki, Naoko
Jensen-Seaman, Michael I.
Kamatani, Yoichiro
Kaname, Tadashi
Kang, Peter
Kanno, Hitoshi
Kato, Norihiro
Katsanis, Nicholas
Kaur, Gurvinder
Kawame, Hiroshi
Keicho, Naoto
Kent, Lindsey
Ki, Chang-Seok
Kimia, Kahrizi
Kimura, Akinori
Kimura, Ryosuke
Kistner-Griffin, Emily
Kiyotani, Kazuma
Kobayashi, Kazuhiro
Kochi, Yuta
Koene, Saskia
Kohara, Katsuhiko
Kohda, Takashi
Kohno, Takashi
Koizumi, Akio
Kokotas, Haris
Komatsu, Masato
Kondo, Eri
Konta, Tsuneo
Kosaki, Kenjiro
Kowa, Hisatomo
Kozaki, Ken-ichi
Kshatriya, Gautam K.
Kubo, Michiaki
Kubota, Takeo
Kumai, Toshio
Kunugi, Hiroshi
Kurahashi, Hiroki
Kure, Shigeo
Kure, Shigeo
Kurima, Kiyoto
Kurosawa, Kenji
Labrune, Philippe
Landsverk, Megan
Larkin, Emma K
Lee, Michael
Lee, Ming Ta Michael
Lee, Suman
Lertrit, Patcharee
Li, Hui
Li, Mingkun
Lin, Hui-Yi
Maeda, Shiro
Mahasirimongkol, Surakameth
Mahmutoglu, Saadet
Mano, Shuhei
Markoff, Arseni
Maruo, Yoshihiro
Maruyama, Tetsuo
Mascheretti, Sara
Matsubara, Keiko
Matsuda, Koichi
Matsumoto, Naomichi
Matsuura, Masaaki
McElreavey, Ken
Meisler, Miriam
Minari, Jusaku
Misawa, Kazuharu
Mishima, Hiroyuki
Mitchell, John
Mitsunaga, Shigeki
Miura, Kiyonori
Miyake, Noriko
Miyata, Toshiyuki
Mizuta, Ikuko
Mochizuki, Hideki
Mochizuki, Kazuki
Molano, Jesus
Mori, Seiichi
Morisada, Naoya
Morisaki, Hiroko
Moumni, Imen
Muller-Myhsok, Bertram
Muramatsu, Masaaki
Murayama, Kei
Mushiroda, Taisei
Muto, Kaori
Nagai, Toshiro
Nakagawa, Masanori
Nakamori, Masayuki
Nakamura, Akinori
Nakamura, Kimitoshi
Nakamura, Takahiro
Nakanishi, Akira
Nakanishi, Koichi
Nakayama, Tomohiro
Nanba, Eiji
Nawa, Hiroyuki
Nie, Wei
Niehusmann, Pitt
Niihori, Tetsuya
Nishida, Nao
Nishino, Ichizo
Nishio, Hisahide
Niu, Wenquan
Noguchi, Emiko
Numabe, Hironao
Nunoi, Hiroyuki
Ogata, Tsutomu
Ogawa, Atsushi
Ogimoto, Akiyoshi
Ohashi, Hirofumi
Ohashi, Jun
Ohashi, Toya
Ohata, Takako
Ohira, Miki
Oikawa, Shinichi
Oka, Akira
Okada, Yukinori
Okamoto, Nobuhiko
Okano, Yoshiyuki
Okazaki, Yasushi
Okuyama, Torayuki
Onodera, Osamu
Onouchi, Yoshihiro
Osawa, Haruhiko
Ota, Masao
Otowa, Takeshi
Ott, Jurg
Ozaki, Kouichi
Parson, Walther
Pena, Sergio
Peng, Min-Sheng
Pereira, Luisa
Pithukpakorn, Manop
Prchal, Josef
Ravi Savarirayan, Ravi
Richman, David
Rogers, Jeffrey
Ronchi, Dario
Russo, Antonio
Saha, Krishna
Saito, Shinji
Sakai, Norio
Sakurai, Akihiro
Salas, Antonio
Sasaki, Yasushi
Satake, Wataru
Sato, Noriko
Satta, Yoko
Sawai, Hideaki
Schönberger, Katharina
Schaid, Daniel
Schindler, Detlev
Schurr, Theodore
Seki, Naohiko
Setianingsih, Iswari
Shaw, Philip
Sherman, Stephanie
Shi, Hong
Shibata, Hiroki
Shiga, Kensuke
Shigemizu, Daichi
Shimizu, Atsushi
Shimozawa, Nobuyuki
Shin, Dong-Jik
Shintaku, Haruo
Silveira, Isabel
Soejima, Hidenobu
Solomon, Sheila
Song, Ranran
Song, Zhiyin
Sripichai, Orapan
Stone, Ann
Strom, Charles
Su, Bing
Sugie, Hideo
Suktitipat, Bhoom
Suzuki, Akari
Suzuki, Motoshi
Suzuki, Yoichi
Svanborg, Catharina
Tabara, Yasuharu
Tajima, Atsushi
Tajima, Go
Takahashi, Yohei
Takashima, Hiroshi
Takeda, Atsushi
Takeshima, Yasuhiro
Takiyama, Yoshihisa
Tamiya, Gen
Tamura, Kazuo
Tan, EK
Tei, Kumiko
Terao, Chikashi
Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Afke F.
Tsuchiya, Naoyuki
Tsuji, Shoji
Tsukaguchi, Yasuhiro
Ueda, Hironori
Usami, Shin-ichi
Van Oven, Mannis
Venselaar, Hanka
Vigano, Paola
Wada, Takahito
Wang, Y.M.
Watanabe, Atsushi
Watanabe, Hiroshi
Watanabe, Yoriko
Winge, Marten
Wintle, Richard
Xu, Shuhua
Yamagata, Zentaro
Yamagishi, Hiroyuki
Yamaguchi, Tetsutaro
Yamamoto, Ken
Yamamoto, Toshiyuki
Yamashita, Takayuki
Yang, Jun
Yang, Zhenglin
Yasuda, Kazuki
Yasui, Kohichiroh
Yasunami, Michio
Yatsu, Keisuke
Yokoyama, Masatoshi
Yokoyama, Takahiko
Yoshida, Kunihiro
Yoshiura, Koh-ichiro
Zhang, Bao-rong
Zhang, Wen
Ziakas, Panos
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Tokunaga, K. Farewell: retirement as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Human Genetics and launching Human Genome Variation. J Hum Genet 59, 2–4 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/jhg.2013.126
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