Sections of Genome Medicine
Research submissions are invited for the following areas (each section is led by a Section Editor):
Molecular genetics, genomics & epigenetics of disease
- Cytogenetics
- Cancer genetics, epigenetics & genomics
- Molecular medicine from a genomic perspective
- Transcriptomics
- Structural variants and copy number variation analyses
- Functional genomics
- Mechanisms of genomic disorders
Personalized medicine & therapeutics
- Pharmacogenomics & Pharmacogenetics
- Toxicogenomics
- Advancements and applications of novel therapeutics
- Molecular diagnostics & development of diagnostic tests
- Biomarker discovery
Genomic epidemiology & public health genomics
- Issues promoting personalized medicine
- Personalized medicine in developing countries
- Genomic epidemiology
- Genomic ethnic diversity
- Population studies
- Genome-wide association studies
- Cost-effectiveness and economic impact of implementing personalized medicine into the clinic
Post-genomic advances in medicine
- Proteomics
- Metabolomics
- Metabonomics
- Nutrigenomics
- Technological advancements in nuclear medicine & imaging
- Technical advancements in high-throughput technologies, biomarker discovery, and mass spectrometry
- Nanotechnology for drug interaction and drug delivery analyses
Systems medicine & informatics
- Systems biology approaches to understanding biological complexity in human disease
- Computational methods to analyse and annotate sequences, structures and other biological data
- Systems approaches to pharmacogenomics
- Software and methods for large-scale data handling and analysis
Social, ethical & legal issues in genomic medicine
- Social implications of personalized medicine
- Ethical and legal issues in bio-banking
- Gene patent issues
- Policy implications of genetic information
On submission, please specify in your covering letter which section you feel is most appropriate for your manuscript.