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PLoS Genetics Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Wayne N. Frankel
The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, USA
E-mail: wfrankel [at] plos.org

Deputy Editors

Greg Barsh
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, USA
Gregory P. Copenhaver
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, USA

Section Editors

Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Cambridge, UK
Gene Expression Profiling
Natural Variation
Greg Gibson
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
Gene Expression Profiling
Natural Variation
Harmit S. Malik
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, USA
Evolutionary Genetics
Gil McVean
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Evolutionary Genetics
Wolf Reik
The Babraham Institute
Cambridge, UK
Epigenetics

Reviews Editors

Elizabeth M. C. Fisher
Institute of Neurology
London, UK
Nicholas Katsanis
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, USA
Marcy E. MacDonald
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, USA
Susan M. Rosenberg
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, USA

Interviews Editor

Jane Gitschier
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, USA

Associate Editors

Gonçalo R. Abecasis
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, USA
human complex disease: genetic mapping, computational and statistical tools
Asifa Akhtar
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Heidelberg, Germany
dosage compensation, chromatin and transcription, epigenetics
David B. Allison
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, USA
obesity, quantitative genetics, clinical trials, and statistical and research methodology
David R. Beier
Harvard Medical School
Boston, USA
mouse genetics, positional cloning, development, mutagenesis, kidney disease
Joy Bergelson
University of Chicago
Chicago, USA
the ecology and evolution of plant–enemy interactions
Wendy A. Bickmore
Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit
Edinburgh, UK
nuclear organisation, genome organisation, chromatin
Sue Biggins
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, USA
mitosis, yeast genetics, checkpoints
William F. Burkholder
Stanford University
Stanford, USA
prokaryotic genetics, DNA replication, microbial stress responses,
cell cycle checkpoints, prokaryotic development
Vivian G. Cheung
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, USA
human genetics, genomics, genetics of gene expression
Andrew G. Clark
Cornell University
Ithaca, USA
adaptive variation in natural populations, population genetics,
evolution, genetic basis of complex disease
Bruce E. Clurman
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, USA
cancer biology, cell cycle control, proteolysis
Orna Cohen-Fix
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Bethesda, USA
cell cycle regulation, mitosis/cell division, nuclear structure/nuclear architecture,
yeast genetics
Gregory A. Cox
The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, USA
neuromuscular disease, mouse genetics, positional cloning
Susan K. Dutcher
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, USA
Chlamydomonas genetics, ciliary and basal body biology,
cytoskeleton, positional cloning, chloroplast genetics
Joseph R. Ecker
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
San Diego, USA
plant genetics, epigenetics, genomics, systems biology
Anne C. Ferguson-Smith
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
mammalian developmental genetics and epigenetics, comparative genomics, gene regulation
Jonathan Flint
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
complex trait genetics (mouse and human), QTL analysis,
behavioral genetics, psychiatric genetics
Claire M. Fraser-Liggett
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, USA
prokaryotic genomics and sequencing, comparative genomics
Michel Georges
University of Liège
Liège, Belgium
complex traits, QTL mapping, epigenetics
Takashi Gojobori
National Institute of Genetics
Mishima, Japan
evolutionary genetics, population genetics, bioinformatics, genomics-oriented human genetics
Mathilde Grelon
Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA de Versailles
Versailles, France
meiosis, recombination, plant biology
David S. Guttman
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
bacterial evolutionary genetics, evolution of virulence and host specificity, comparative genomics
James E. Haber
Brandeis University
Waltham, USA
yeast genetics, recombination, DNA repair, replication
R. Scott Hawley
Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Kansas City, USA
meiosis, chromosome pairing, chromosome segregation,
mutant screens and mutational analysis in Drosophila, mitosis, chromosome structure
Yoshihide Hayashizaki
RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center
Yokohama, Japan
molecular genetics, genomics, transcriptomics, post-genome technology
Tetsuji Kakutani
National Institute of Genetics
Mishima, Japan
plant epigenetics, DNA methylation, heterochromatin
Kathleen Kerr
University of Washington
Seattle, USA
expression arrays, experimental design, statistical methods
Stuart K. Kim
Stanford University
Stanford, USA
genomics, systems biology, C. elegans genetics, aging
Leonid Kruglyak
Princeton University
Princeton, USA
genetic variation and disease, genomics, gene expression (human, dogs, yeast)
Suzanne M. Leal
Baylor College of Medicine
Boston, USA
methods in statistical genetics and genetic epidemiology,
population and family-based association studies, linkage analysis
Jeannie T. Lee
Massachusetts General Hospital, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Boston, USA
sex chromosomes, X and autosomal imprinting, noncoding RNA
Michael Lichten
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, USA
meiosis, recombination, chromosome structure/function
Trudy F. C. Mackay
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, USA
complex trait genetics, QTL mapping, LD mapping, evolutionary genetics
Susan E. Mango
Huntsman Cancer Institute
Salt Lake City, USA
C. elegans genetics, promoter analysis, genomics,
organogenesis and development, epithelium formation
Jonathan Marchini
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
association mapping, statistical methods, human complex disease, population structure
Ivan Matic
Université Paris V, INSERM U571
Paris, France
prokaryotic genetics, recombination, DNA repair, mutagenesis, evolution, infectious diseases
Mark I. McCarthy
Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism
and Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
diabetes, obesity, and metabolic disease, genetic mapping, genetics of complex diseases
Michael T. McManus
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, USA
RNA expression arrays, mouse transgenics, mechanisms of small RNA biology
Mary C. Mullins
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, USA
zebrafish genetics, positional cloning, developmental genetics
Harry T. Orr
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, USA
mammalian genetics, neurodegeneration, triplet repeat diseases
Norbert Perrimon
Harvard Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Boston, USA
Drosophila developmental genetics, signal transduction
Dmitri A. Petrov
Stanford University
Stanford, USA
inference of evolutionary patterns from molecular data, genome evolution,
molecular population genetics, eukaryotic transposable elements

Jonathan K. Pritchard
University of Chicago
Chicago, USA
population genetics, human population structure, association mapping
Molly Przeworski
University of Chicago
Chicago, USA
population genetics, molecular evolution, human evolution, human linkage disequilibrium studies
Paul M. Richardson
Progentech
Emeryville, USA
microbial genomics, sequencing technology
Derry C. Roopenian
The Jackson Laboratory
Bar Harbor, USA
immunogenetics, mouse genetics
Susan M. Rosenberg
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, USA
prokaryotic genetics, genome instability, mutagenesis, DNA repair, recombination, evolution
Eric Rulifson
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, USA
Drosophila developmental genetics, endocrine system organogenesis and biology
Mikkel H. Schierup
University of Aarhus
Aarhus, Denmark
molecular evolution, comparative genomics, population genetics
Nicholas J. Schork
University of California, San Diego and The Scripps Research Institute
La Jolla, USA
the genetic basis of complex traits and diseases, computational and statistical tools
Michael Snyder
Yale University
New Haven, USA
yeast and human genomics and proteomics, chromosome segregation, morphogenesis, cell cycle
David L. Stern
Princeton University
Princeton, USA
evolutionary developmental biology, genetics in non-model insects,
genetics, physiology, development and evolution of size, control of polyphenisms,
development and genetics of bacterial symbiosis
John D. Storey
Princeton University
Princeton, USA
gene expression, computational and statistical tools, integrative genomics
Lisa Stubbs
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Livermore, USA
mammalian genetics, comparative genomics, genome evolution, gene regulation
Joseph S. Takahashi
Northwestern University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Urbana, USA
mouse genetics and genomics, molecular neuroscience, genetics of behavior, circadian biology
Barbara J. Trask
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, USA
mammalian genome organization, cytogenetics, gene families, duplications, cancer genetics,
nuclear organization, molecular evolution, gross polymorphism
David Valle
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, USA
human genetics, disease gene identification, analysis,
disease mechanisms and model systems, inborn errors of metabolism, genomics
Veronica van Heyningen
Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit
Edinburgh, UK
developmental genetics, human disease and mutational mechanisms, regulation of gene expression,
genomic organisation, model organisms, gene-environment interactions
Bas van Steensel
Netherlands Cancer Institute
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
chromatin structure and composition, epigenetics, gene regulatory networks,
genome-wide mapping techniques
Peter M. Visscher
Queensland Institute of Medical Research
Brisbane, Australia
quantitative genetics, methods in statistical genetics and genetic epidemiology,
complex disease genetics

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