PLOS Genetics

PLOS Genetics (formerly PLoS Genetics) is an Open Access peer-reviewed journal published monthly by PLOS. Out of the seven PLOS journals, it is one of the four "community journals" (along with PLOS Computational Biology, PLOS Pathogens, and PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases) and aims to reflect "the full breadth and interdisciplinary nature of genetics and genomics research by publishing original contributions in all areas of biology”.PLOS Genetics was founded in 2005 by Wayne N. Frankel (from The Jackson Laboratory) and is now run by an international editorial board led by the Editors-in-Chief Gregory S. Barsh (HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, and Stanford University School of Medicine) and Gregory P. Copenhaver (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). All content in PLOS Genetics is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows free redistribution and use of content providing the original authors and source are cited.

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