Genetics Research

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| title = Genetics Research

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| editor = Marc Tischkowitz

| discipline = Genetics

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| language = English

| former_name = Genetical Research

| abbreviation = Genet. Res. (Camb.)

| publisher = Cambridge University Press

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| history = 1960–present

| openaccess = Yes

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| impact = 1.059

| impact-year = 2017

| website = https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/genetics-research

| link1 = https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/genetics-research/latest-issue

| link1-name = Online access

| link2 = https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/genetics-research

| link2-name = Online archive

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| ISSN = 0016-6723

| eISSN = 1469-5073

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| LCCN = 2018219050

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Genetics Research is an open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of human and animal genetics, reporting key findings on genomes, genes, mutations and molecular interactions, extending out to developmental, evolutionary, and population genetics as well as ethical, legal and social aspects. It was established in 1960 as Genetical Research, obtaining its current name in 2008. The founding editor-in-chief was Eric C.R. Reeve (University of Edinburgh).{{Cite journal |last=Roper |first=J. A. |date=January 1962 |title=Book Reviews |journal=British Medical Bulletin |language=en |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=88 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a069946 |issn=1471-8391}}

It is published by Cambridge University Press and the editor-in-chief is Marc Tischkowitz (University of Cambridge). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.059, ranking it 149th out of 171 journals in the category "Genetics & Heredity".{{cite book |year=2018 |chapter=Journals Ranked by Impact: Genetics & Heredity |title=2017 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Clarivate Analytics |edition=Science |series=Web of Science|title-link=Journal Citation Reports }}

The journal has published papers from such renowned researchers as Mary Lyon (of Lyonisation),{{Cite journal |last=Hawker |first=Susan G. |last2=Lyon |first2=Mary F. |date=April 1973 |title=Reproductive lifespan in irradiated and unirradiated chromosomally XO mice |journal=Genetics Research |language=en |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=185–194 |doi=10.1017/S0016672300013355 |pmid=4735820 |issn=1469-5073|doi-access=free }} Charlotte Auerbach,{{Cite journal |last=Isaacson |first=J. H. |last2=Falconer |first2=D. S. |last3=Auerbach |first3=C. |date=November 1962 |title=Test for sex-linked lethals in irradiated mice |journal=Genetics Research |language=en |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=444–447 |doi=10.1017/S0016672300003281 |issn=1469-5073|doi-access=free }} and John Maynard Smith, author of Genetics Research's most cited paper, The hitch-hiking effect of a favourable gene.