Genetic Epidemiology is a peer-reviewed journal for discussion of research on the genetic causes of the distribution of human traits in families and populations. Emphasis is placed on the relative contribution of genetic and environmental factors to human disease as revealed by genetic, epidemiological, and biologic investigations.

Genetic Epidemiology primarily publishes papers in statistical genetics, a research field that is primarily concerned with development of statistical, bioinformatical, and computational models for analyzing genetic data. Incorporation of underlying biology and population genetics into conceptual models is favored. The Journal seeks original articles comprising either applied research or innovative statistical, mathematical, computational, or genomic methodologies that advance studies in genetic epidemiology. Other types of reports are encouraged, such as letters to the editor, topic reviews, and perspectives from other fields of research that will likely enrich the field of genetic epidemiology.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Sanjay Shete, PhD (Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, P.O. Box 301402, Houston, Texas 77230-1402, USA)


ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Heather Cordell (International Centre for Life, Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
Jason Moore (Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)


EDITORIAL BOARD
Eric Boerwinkle (The University of Texas School of Public Health, Dallas, USA)
Nilanjan Chatterjee (NCI-DC, Washington, USA)
David Conti (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
Michael Epstein (Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
Carol Etzel (The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA)
Dani Fallin (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
Emmanuelle Génin (INSERM, Paris, France)
Varghese George (Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, USA)
Katrina Goddard (Kaiser Permanente, Portland, Oregon, USA)
Alisa Goldstein (NCI-DC, Washington, USA)
Jeanine Houwing- Duistermaat (Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands)
Peter Kraft (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
Anne-Louise Leutenegger (INSERM, Paris, France)
K-Y Liang (National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan)
Danyu Lin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Shili Lin (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)
Stuart MacGregor (QIMR Berghofer, Australia)
Andrew Morris (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Bhramar Mukherjee (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
Taesung Park (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Jaya Satagopan (MSKCC-New York, USA)
Daniel Schaid (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA)
Lei Sun (University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
John Witte (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
Heping Zhang (Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA)
Xiaofeng Zhu (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA)