期刊名称：ANNALS OF HUMAN GENETICS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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Annals of Human Genetics now has an ISI® Impact Factor® of 2.135
From 1 June 2003 you will be able to submit manuscripts ONLINE at http://ahg.manuscriptcentral.com!
The first issue of 2003 is now available free online!
The Annals of Human Genetics is an international journal publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research. The principal aim of the Annals is to increase understanding of the biology of human variation, both in disease and in health. In recent years it has become apparent that the study of population genetics is extremely relevant to molecular pathology. The interaction of these fields can greatly increase our understanding of the generation and maintenance of variation in the human genome.
The major topics covered in the Annals include:-
Human genome variation - its evolution and implications for human biology. Interpretations of the current or future state of the human genome sequence are also welcomed.
Human population genetics - including studies which elucidate human history, our understanding of chromosome evolution, and the geographic distribution of particular diseases, worldwide. The journal will also consider studies on primate populations.
Statistical genetics - the application and improvement of mathematical approaches for analysis of genetic data, including linkage and association mapping of genes and QTLs. The journal also welcomes papers focussing on more general bioinformatic approaches.
Genetics of common multifactorial diseases and other complex traits and QTLs - in general we expect these to be human but relevant animal models will also be considered.
Mendelian disorders and their molecular pathology - the emphasis will again be on human disease but animal models or in vitro work may also be considered.
Pharmacogenetics - the potential application of human genetic variation in response to drugs and other chemicals.
In each of these areas we welcome high quality articles providing original data and/or analysis, and also methodological papers, preferably including application to real data. Large datasets and additional material can be stored and made easily available through the journal web site. An absolute requirement of all papers will be that a general reader of the journal can understand from the summary of the paper what problem the authors are trying to solve.
Most articles published will be full-length research papers, and in each issue we aim to have at least one review article. Reviews are generally invited, but suggestions are very welcome and preliminary enquiries should be directed to the Reviews Editor, Steve Humphries. Short communications will also be considered if of sufficient interest.
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Print ISSN: 0003-4800
Online ISSN: 1469-1809
Issues per Volume: Bi-monthly
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Instructions to Authors
From 1 June 2003 you will be able to submit manuscripts ONLINE at http://ahg.manuscriptcentral.com!
Manuscripts and enquiries should be addressed to:
The Editors
Annals of Human Genetics
The Galton Laboratory
University College London
Wolfson House
4 Stephenson Way
London NW1 2HE
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 5079
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7387 3496
Email: anhumgen@galton.ucl.ac.uk
Submitting authors should include a contact email address and fax and phone numbers. To facilitate faster processing authors are also invited to suggest suitable referees for their paper. It is the responsibility of the submitting author to ensure that the authorship of the paper reflects the contributions of the authors to the work described, and that all listed authors have agreed to the submission of the manuscript in its current form.
Conditions of publication in the Annals are: (a) that the paper has not already been published elsewhere; (b) that it is not currently being considered for publication elsewhere; (c) that, once published in the Annals, it will not be reprinted without permission from the Editors; (d) all persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship, and all those who qualify should be listed. If accepted, papers become the copyright of University College London.
Copyright Assignment
Authors are required to assign copyright in their paper to Blackwell Publishing and the Annals of Human Genetics. Copyright assignment is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless copyright has been assigned. (Papers subject to government or Crown copyright are exempt from this requirement). Please download the Copyright Assignment Form here.
Supplementary Material
Supplementary Material, such as data sets or additional figures or tables, that will not be published in the print edition of the journal, but which will be viewable via the online edition, can be submitted.
It should be clearly stated at the time of submission that the authors intend for the Supplementary Material to be made available through the online edition. Supplementary Material will be made available in electronic form free of charge either through the journal's Web pages or on request from Blackwell Publishing. Alternatively, if the size or format of the Supplementary Material is such that it cannot be accommodated on the journal's Web site, the author agrees to make the Supplementary Material available free of charge on a permanent Web site, to which links will be set up from Annals of Human Genetics' Web site. The author must advise Blackwell Publishing if the URL of the Web site where the Supplementary Material is located changes.
The availability of Supplementary Material should be indicated in the main manuscript by a paragraph, to appear after the References, headed 'Supplementary Material' and providing titles of figures, tables, etc. The Supplementary Material should be submitted to the Editorial Office in final form, ready for viewing, or alternatively, if the size or format is such that it cannot be submitted, the author should make the Supplementary Material available for viewing in final form via the Web by the Editorial Office and by reviewers. No changes can be made subsequently by the Editorial Office or the Publisher. This Supplementary Material is an integral part of the article and will be reviewed accordingly.
Presentation of manuscripts
Online submission of manuscripts will be launched shortly. Full details of how to submit your manuscripts will be posted here when available.
Three complete typescripts should be submitted initially, with at least one set of original figures. Upon acknowledgement submitting authors will be requested where possible to send a copy of the summary as text within an email message, and a copy of the complete manuscript as an email attachment, giving details of the word-processing software used; suitable formats include Microsoft Word, WordPerfect and LaTeX. When a manuscript has been accepted for publication, the author is requested to send an electronic copy of the final version either by email or on computer disk (IBM-compatible PC), together with the hard copy typescript (see 'Disk or electronic submission of manuscripts'). The publisher reserves the right to typeset material by conventional means if an author's files prove unsatisfactory.
Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout and with adequate margins. They should be on one side only of A4 or American quarto white paper. Footnotes to the text should be avoided. Quotation marks should be single, not double. Italics, as in the case of genotypes or algebraic parameters in the text, should be indicated either by italic type or by underlining. This is not necessary in numbered equations where mathematical symbols will be italicised as a matter of course.
Title page
(a) Titles should be as concise as possible and in lower case roman type, capitals and italics being employed only where necessary.
(b) Authors' names should be in capitals. Initials and surnames only are required, no first names or qualifications.
(c) Authors' addresses should be adequately stated for postal communication, and the fax number and email address of the author to whom correspondence should be addressed should be supplied.
(d) A short 'running head', to be used at the top of subsequent right-hand pages, should be suggested.
(e) A short list of key words.
Summary
This must contain a summary of the major findings and conclusions of the paper, and should not exceed 200 words. If any human gene is discussed the approved gene symbol must be mentioned. An absolute requirement of all papers will be that a general reader of the journal can understand from the summary of the paper what problem the authors are trying to solve
Subsequent sections
Authors are at liberty to arrange their material as they see fit, for the clearest presentation, but most papers continue with the following headings, centred and in capitals:
INTRODUCTION, MATERIALS AND METHODS, RESULTS, DISCUSSION
Sub-headings are normally to the left of the page in lower case italics.
Acknowledgements
Besides personal acknowledgements, sources of financial support should be mentioned in this smaller-type section, if desired.
References
References are cited in the text by author's name and year of publication. An ampersand (&) is used to link two co-authors and et al. for three or more. References should be checked carefully before submission to make sure that all references given in the text (and no others) appear in the list of references and that the spelling of authors' names and the dates are correct in both text and reference list. Responsibility for accuracy rests entirely with the authors.
The reference list should be presented double-spaced and in alphabetical order. The titles of journals should be abbreviated according to the World List of Scientific Periodicals. The references should be arranged and punctuated along the following lines:
Ott, J. (1991) Analysis of human genetic linkage. Baltimore, London: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Rao, D.C. (1983) Path analysis of pairs of relatives. In: Methods in genetic epidemiology (eds. N.E. Morton, D.C. Rao & J.-M. Lalouel), pp. 23-60. Basel: S. Karger.
Sham, P.C. & Curtis, D. (1995) Monte Carlo tests for associations between disease and alleles at highly polymorphic loci. Ann. Hum. Genet. 59, 97-105.
Appendix
Detailed sets of data or proofs of mathematical propositions may be given in the form of APPENDIX I, APPENDIX II, etc., following the reference list, if they are likely to prove valuable to other workers. Since such data may actually be more useful electronically than on paper, they may be submitted as 'Supplementary Material'.
Tables
Each table should be on an unnumbered separate page and have a concise title in italics. Other information may either follow the title in parenthesis (in smaller roman type) or be given beneath the table in footnotes. The table will be inserted as near as possible to its first mention in the text. The space limitations of the printed page should be borne in mind when composing tables.
Figures
Figures must be submitted electronically (please see below for details). Illustrations should be in black and white unless colour is essential to the scientific point. Authors will be asked to contribute to the cost of colour printing; please download and complete the Colour Agreement Form, available from http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/Sub3000_X_CoW.pdf and should be returned to The Annals office (see address above). Failure to complete and return this form may delay publication. Grey-shaded areas on computer-drawn figures (tinting) should be avoided. Preferably figures should require no alteration in scale; in particular authors should note that various levels of stippling and cross-hatching are often indistinguishable when the size is reduced. Legends to figures should be given, double-spaced, as continuous text, on a separate page. The author's name and figure number should be pencilled lightly on the back of each illustration.
Electronic artwork
Please send us digital versions of your figures. Line illustrations or photographs should be supplied after the manuscript has been accepted. Line illustrations should be provided at 600 dots per inch (dpi) and photographs at 300 dots per inch in either Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) or as Encapsulated Postscript (EPS). Detailed information on our digital illustration standards is available at: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/authors/digill.asp
Nomenclature
For human genes, authors should use nomenclature approved by the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee, chaired by Sue Povey, Department of Biology, Wolfson House, 4 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HE. Tel: +44 (0) 20 7679 5027; Fax: +44 (0) 20 7387 3496; Email: nome@galton.ucl.ac.uk. For further information and a list of approved symbols see http://www.gene.ucl.ac.uk/nomenclature/. Published guidelines are available in Wain et al.(2001) Guidelines for human gene nomenclature. Genomics 79, 464-70. In referring to genes in other species authors should consult the appropriate nomenclature authority. Links to most of these can be found at the web address given above.
Disk or electronic submission of manuscripts
When submitting electronically or supplying your manuscript on disk, please follow these instructions:
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Final version of the hard copy and the floppy disk must be the same.
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It is essential that the disk contains any last-minute changes.
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File name(s) should be given with the disk, with separate file names for: text, references, tables, figure captions.
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If possible, electronic or files saved on disc should be supplied in both word processor and ASCII (.rtf) formats.
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Be consistent. Use the same presentation for all headings, etc. that are to appear the same in the finished printing.
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Advise us about any matter that you think could cause a problem.
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Do not use the carriage return (enter) at the end of lines within a paragraph.
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Disks will not be returned to authors.
Proofs
Notification that proofs are ready to download will be sent via email to the corresponding author. The proof will then be available to download as an Acrobat PDF (portable document format) file. Therefore, the corresponding author should supply their email address when they submit their manuscript. Acrobat Reader will be required in order to read this file. This software can be downloaded (free of charge) from the following Web site: www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html.
This will enable the file to be opened, read on screen and printed out in order for any corrections to be added. Further instructions will be sent with the proof. Proofs will be posted if no email address is available; in your absence, please arrange for a colleague to access your email to retrieve the proofs.
Major alterations to the text will be charged to the author and may delay publication.
Offprints
Electronic (PDF) offprints of each article will be supplied free to the corresponding author. Paper offprints may be purchased if ordered on the form supplied with the proofs. Orders from all authors collaborating in one paper should be returned on the same form.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:
Sue Povey, University College London - human genetics
Managing Editor:
Elspeth Bruford, University College London
Senior Editors:
Jaume Bertranpetit, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona - human population genetics/human evolution
Warren Ewens, University of Pennsylvania - statistical/population genetics
David Goldstein, University College London - human population genetics/pharmacogenetics/genetics of complex disease
David Kwiatkowski, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard University - human/molecular genetics
Lai Poh San, National University of Singapore - clinical/molecular genetics
Reviews Editor:
Steve Humphries, Rayne Institute, University College London - cardiovascular genetics
Editorial Board:
Shomi Bhattacharya, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London - ophthalmic genetics
Lon Cardon, University of Oxford - statistical genetics
David Clayton, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research - statistical genetics
Francoise Clerget-Darpoux, INSERM, Paris - statistical genetics
Andrew Collins, University of Southampton - statistical genetics/bioinformatics
Heather Cordell, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research - statistical genetics
Ian Craig, University of Oxford/Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London - neuropsychiatric genetics
David Curtis, Royal London Hospital - statistical/psychiatric genetics
Martin Farrall, University of Oxford - cardiovascular genetics
Marc Feldman, Stanford University - theoretical population genetics
Josef Gecz, Womens and Childrens Hospital, Adelaide - molecular genetics
David Hopkinson, University College London - biochemical genetics
Alec Jeffreys, University of Leicester - human variation genetics
Mark A Jobling, University of Leicester
M Ilyas Kamboh, University of Pittsburgh - molecular/cardiovascular & neuropsychiatric genics
Nan Laird, Harvard University - statistical genetics
Julio Licinio, University of California, Los Angeles - pharmacogenomics
Christopher Mathew, Guys, Kings and St Thomas School of Medicine, London - molecular genetics
Guy Rouleau, McGill University, Montreal - neurogenetics
Yoshi Sakaki, RIKEN Genome Sciences Center, Yokohama - genome science
Pak Sham, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London - statistical/psychiatric genetics
Simon Tavare, University of Southern California, Los Angeles - bioinformatics
Glenys Thomson, University of California, Berkeley - statistical genetics
Laurence Tiret, INSERM, Paris - statistical/cardiovascular genetics
Chris Tyler-Smith, University of Oxford - human population genetics
Jeff T Williams, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio - statistical genetics
Sue Wilson, Australian National University, Canberra - statistical genetics
Roland Wolf, University of Dundee
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