Global Medical Genetics is an international Open Access journal devoted to publishing peer-reviewed, high quality, original papers in the field of genetics. We publish the following article types: original research articles, reviews, editorials, letters, and conference reports.

Global Medical Genetics welcomes papers on all topics of genetics, including:

• Genes involved in the pathology of human disease
• Molecular analysis of simple and complex genetic traits
• Cancer genetics
• Epigenetics
• Gene therapy
• Developmental genetics
• Regulation of gene expression
• Strategies and technologies for extracting function from genomic data
• Pharmacological genomics
• Genome evolution