As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer review process during normal times. Please do let us know if you need additional time. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time.
COVID-19 and impact on peer review
Shared genetic architecture and molecular phenotypes
Ko and colleagues develop a cross-phenotype analysis platform with improved identification of shared loci and cross-phenotype associations.
Special issue: Impact of genomics on precision public health
Our special issue on ‘The impact of genomics on precision public health’, guest edited by Muin Khoury and Kathryn Holt has launched.
Prospective high-throughput genome profiling
Bertucci, Chaffanet and colleagues report the results of the prospective PERMED-01 clinical trial of patients with advanced solid cancers.
Global genomic pathogen surveillance
Bentley and Lo consider the strengths and challenges for pathogen genomic surveillance using the experience of the Global Pneumococcal Sequencing project.
Reviews, Research Highlights and Commentaries
Read authoritative Reviews, Opinions and other content commissioned by the Genome Medicine Editors from leading researchers:
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Circulating bacterial signature is linked to metabolic disease and shifts with metabolic alleviation after bariatric surgery
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Genetic correlation and causal relationships between cardio-metabolic traits and lung function impairment
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Systems pharmacogenomics identifies novel targets and clinically actionable therapeutics for medulloblastoma
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Dietary fiber intake, the gut microbiome, and chronic systemic inflammation in a cohort of adult men
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A practical guide to single-cell RNA-sequencing for biomedical research and clinical applications
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Analysis of 100,000 human cancer genomes reveals the landscape of tumor mutational burden
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Gut microbiome-host interactions in health and disease
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The Human Genome Project: big science transforms biology and medicine
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Constructing narratives of heroism and villainy: case study of Myriad's BRACAnalysis® compared to Genentech's Herceptin®
Focus: Fertility
Read the latest papers on fertility across BMC flagship journals.
Cisplatin and carboplatin result in similar gonadotoxicity in immature human testis with implications for fertility preservation in childhood cancer
Melissa D. Tharmalingam et al.
Published in BMC Medicine 04 December 2020
Large-scale discovery of male reproductive tract-specific genes through analysis of RNA-seq datasets
Matthew Robertson et al.
Published in BMC Biology 19 August 2020
DNA methylation and body mass index from birth to adolescence: meta-analyses of epigenome-wide association studies
Florianne Vehmeijer et al.
Published in Genome Medicine 25 November 2020
The Tug1 lncRNA locus is essential for male fertility
Jordan Lewandowski et al.
Published in Genome Biology 07 September 2020
Aims and scope
Genome Medicine publishes important advances of broad interest in the application of genetics, genomics and multi-omics to understand, diagnose and treat disease. The Journal aims to bridge the basic science and clinical research communities in areas that include, but are not limited to: cancer genomics, immuno-oncology, immunogenomics, infectious disease, microbiome, cardiology, neurogenomics, systems medicine, clinical genomics, gene therapies, precision medicine, and clinical trials. The Journal content includes original research, method, software, database and guideline articles as well as reviews, opinions and commentaries.
Article collections
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Translating the microbiome in health and disease
Guest editor: Ramnik Xavier
Special issue
Clinical interpretation of genome variation
Guest editors: Heidi Rehm and Douglas Fowler
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A decade of Genome Medicine
Special issue
Tumor immune microenvironment and immunotherapy
Guest editors: Zlatko Trajanoski and Noel de Miranda
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C19 Rapid Review initiative
Genome Medicine has joined the C19 Rapid Review initiative, a cross-publisher collaboration to ensure that COVID-19 research is reviewed and published as quickly and openly as possible. Learn more here.
Submissions from medRxiv
Authors are now able to submit manuscripts to Genome Medicine directly from medRxiv without having to re-upload files.
Portable peer review
To reduce time spent on serial submissions and iterative reviewing, Genome Medicine offers to consider manuscripts on the basis of reviews received at other journals. We also support transfers of reviews obtained at Genome Medicine to other journals, including those outside of BMC and Springer Nature. Learn more from our peer review policy page.
COVID-19 submissions
In response to the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic Genome Medicine editors will treat relevant submissions with high priority.
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10.637 - 5-year Impact Factor
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