About Genes

Aims

Genes (ISSN 2073-4425) is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal which provides an advanced forum for studies related to genes, genetics and genomics. It publishes reviews, research articles, communications and technical notes. There is no restriction on the maximum length of the papers and we encourage scientists to publish their results in as much detail as possible.

Scope

This journal covers all topics related to genes, genetics and genomics including, but not limited to:

• DNA; RNA
• genetic code; gene structure; gene expression
• chromosomes; recombination and linkage; genetic mapping
• transcriptional profiling; analysis of noncoding and other RNAs
• cloning; genetically modified organisms; transgenic technology
• human genetics; medical genetics; gene therapy; precision medicine
• population genetics; conservation genetics; phylogenomics; phylogenetics
• genome projects; genomics
• sequencing technologies; bioinformatics
• breeding and genetic selection
• pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics
• genome editing
• cancer immunotherapy
• epigenetic therapy
• genetic toxicology
• environmental mutagenesis
• developmental genetics
• cytogenomics

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Genes will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

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