American Journal of Human Genetics

The American Journal of Human Genetics, abbreviated Am. J. Hum. Genet., Is a scientific journal published by Cell Press Publishing on behalf of the American Society of Human Genetics. The first issue was published in September 1949. Currently, the magazine is published monthly. There are published works from all areas of human genetics. All items are in the archives of the U.S. National Library of Medicine freely available online.

The Impact Factor was in 2012 at 11.202. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge, the journal impact factor with this in the category of genetics and inheritance is performed at the seventh position of 161 journals.

Editor in Chief David L. Nelson ( Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, United States of America).