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Genetics and Heredity

Empowering a community publishing articles in all areas of Genetics and Heredity, including the genetics of all living organisms, genomics, population genetics, molecular evolution and phylogenetics, disease genetics, human genetics, cancer genetics, gene expression, chromosome biology, epigenetics, and much more.

PLOS is a leader in Genetics & Heredity research
More than 14,431 articles
547,425 citations
Authors from 163 countries

At PLOS, we put researchers and research first.

Our expert editorial boards collaborate with reviewers to provide accurate assessment that readers can trust. Authors have a choice of journals, publishing outputs, and tools to open their science to new audiences and get credit. We collaborate to make science, and the process of publishing science, fair, equitable, and accessible for the whole community.

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PLOS Digital Health
PLOS Digital Health brings together research into water sanitation and hygiene measures, as well as the sustainable consumption, management and supply of water as a vital resource for societies in every region of the world.
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PLOS publishes a suite of influential Open Access journals across all areas of science and medicine.

Rigorously reported, peer reviewed and immediately available without restrictions, promoting the widest readership and impact possible. We encourage you to consider the journal’s scope before submission, as they are all editorially independent and specialized in their publication criteria and breadth of content.

Looking for exciting work in your field?

Discover top cited Genetics & Heredity papers from recent years.

JOURNALS YOU SHOULD KNOW
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This PLOS ONE and PLOS Medicine joint Special Issue brings together a diverse range of research that looks into the importance of nutrition and the indirect causes that can impact maternal and child health.

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Reproducibility is important for the future of science.

PLOS is Open so that everyone can read, share, and reuse the research we publish. Underlying our commitment to Open Science is our data availability policy which ensures every piece of your research is accessible and replicable. We also go beyond that, empowering authors to preregister their research, and publish protocols, negative and null results, and more.

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GENETICS & HEREDITY IN THE NEWS

Ready to share your study with a wider audience? Help more people read, see, and cite your published research with our Author Media Toolkit

FROM THE PLOS BLOGS NETWORK
Exploring code notebooks through community focused collaboration
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The lack of reproducibility of research findings is a continuing concern in modern science. Code reproducibility is a central part of the problem and we have been exploring code notebooks as one potential solution. 

Imagining a transformed scientific publication landscape
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Open Science is not a finish line, but rather a means to an end. An underlying goal behind the movement towards Open Science is to conduct and publish more reliable and thoroughly reported research.

Editors' picks
2020
2020 written with fireworks in the background

Here, PLOS ONE Staff Editors from the different subject teams reflect on the past year choosing some of their favorite research. From research on plastic pollution to improving prognosis predictions for patients with cancer, we hope that these selections will have something of interest for everyone.

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