Annual acknowledgement of reviewers

Contributing reviewers

The editors of BMC Medical Genetics would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 16 (2015).

Aiysha Abid

Pakistan

Gijs Afink

Netherlands

Jose Agundez

Spain

Shafqat Ahmad

Sweden

Waqas Ahmed

Pakistan

Arvind Ahuja

India

Loubna Akhabir

Canada

Alain Fischer

France

Marielle Alders

Netherlands

Thaddeus Allen

USA

Prabha Andraweera

Sri Lanka

Kübler Andrzej

Poland

Paolo Aretini

Italy

Dan Arking

USA

Tahir Atik

Turkey

Kit Sing Au

USA

Ruxandra Bachmann-Gagescu

Switzerland

Guney Bademci

USA

Jeehyeon Bae

South Korea

Deeksha Bali

USA

Yoshiyuki Ban

Japan

Siddharth Banka

UK

Anu Bashamboo

France

Sulman Basit

Saudi Arabia

Claiton Bau

Brazil

Olivier Becherel

Australia

Jirair Bedoyan

USA

Petra Bergström

Sweden

Dwaipayan Bharadwaj

India

Jocelyn Biagini Myers

USA

Silvia Bione

Italy

Douglas Bittel

USA

Alan Bittles

Australia

Nevado Blanco

Spain

Alessandra Boletta

Italy

Hanno Bolz

Germany

Guntram Borck

Germany

Yvonne Böttcher

Germany

Nabila Bouatia-Naji

France

Patrice Bouvagnet

France

Kari Branham

USA

Hilgo Bruining

Netherlands

Nicola Brunetti-Pierri

Italy

Alfredo Brusco

Italy

Maria Bruzelius

Finland

Camron Bryant

USA

Dejan Budimirovic

USA

Monika Buraczynska

Poland

Kathryn Burdon

Australia

Jacinta Bustamante

France

Jiping Cai

China

Vijayasarathy Camasamudram

USA

Xin Cao

China

Cynthia Cardoso

Brazil

John Carulli

USA

Aline Carvalho

Brazil

Stéphane Cauchi

France

Alvaro Cerda

Brazil

Zafer Çetin

Turkey

Serdar Ceylaner

Turkey

Hyojin Chae

South Korea

Imen Chamkha

Tunisia

Sally Chappell

UK

Dongbao Chen

USA

Edwin Chen

UK

Lijia Chen

Hong Kong

Sam Cheng

USA

Yu Kyung Cho

South Korea

Murim Choi

South Korea

Jan Christian

USA

Paraskevi Christofidou

UK

Denise Christofolini

Brazil

Mete Civelek

USA

Annique Claringbould

Netherlands

Bernard Cohen

USA

Andrew Collins

Norway

Martina Cornel

Netherlands

Fernanda Correa

Brazil

Laura Crisponi

Italy

Katalin Csiszar

USA

Ivon Cuscó

Spain

Aparecido Da Cruz

Brazil

Soheil Dadras

USA

Kausik Das

India

Mariza De Andrade

USA

Carlos De Brasi

Argentina

Gianpaolo De Filippo

France

Andréia Rosane De Moura Valim

Brazil

Nicolas De Roux

France

Jean De Schepper

Belgium

Deepthi De Silva

Sri Lanka

Margaret Deangelis

USA

Maria Lisa Dentici

Italy

Terry Derks

Netherlands

Andrew Dewan

USA

Teresa Di Desidero

Italy

Patricia Dickson

USA

Giulio Disanto

UK

Vajira Dissanayake

Sri Lanka

Robert Dodd

USA

Ranhui Duan

China

Christele Dubourg

France

Kate Duffus

UK

Abhijit Dutta

India

Thomas Ebert

Germany

Todd Edwards

USA

Sherif El-Khamisy

UK

Deborah Elstein

Israel

Barry Eng

Canada

Ayelet Erez

Israel

Pascal Escher

Switzerland

Stephen Eyre

UK

Walid Fakhouri

USA

Tove Fall

Sweden

David Fardo

USA

Sanja Farkas

Sweden

Agustin Fernandez

Spain

Jose Fernandez

USA

Massimiliano Ferrara

Italy

Marco Fichera

Italy

Karla Figueroa

USA

Alarcon Flora

France

Sandra Founds

USA

Kevin Foust

USA

Lude Franke

Netherlands

Judith Fridovich-Keil

USA

Ricardo Fujita

Peru

Nobuo Fuse

Japan

Marta Futema

UK

Suzanne Gage

UK

Daniel Gale

UK

Miguel Garcia-Gonzalez

Spain

Elena Garcia-Martin

Spain

Scott Garman

USA

Tuoyu Geng

China

Reza Ghassemifar

Australia

Michael Gill

Ireland

Roberto Giugliani

Brazil

Johannes Gjerstad

Norway

Christos Gkogkas

UK

Paul Goodfellow

USA

Ajit Gorakshakar

India

Steven Graves

USA

Annette Grueters

Germany

Ewa Grzybowska

Poland

Jordi Guimera

Germany

Alistair Gunn

New Zealand

Tingwei Guo

USA

Yiran Guo

USA

Dongchuan Guo

USA

Patricia Hall

USA

Ian Hastings

UK

Ziarih Hawi

Australia

Peter Henneman

Netherlands

Imma Hernan

Spain

Stephanie Hicks

USA

Alan Hinnebusch

USA

Anke Hinney

Germany

Rosario Hirata

Brazil

Kim Hirshfield

USA

Mads Vilhelm Hollegaard

Denmark

Amjad Horani

USA

Yukio Horikawa

Japan

H Dean Hosgood

USA

Xuwei Hou

China

Judie Ann Howrylak

USA

I-Chueh Huang

USA

Dirk Hubmacher

USA

Annika Hult

Sweden

Mahmood Hussain

USA

Adlette Inati

Lebanon

Nobuhisa Ishikawa

Japan

Naoko Iwasaki

Japan

Francis Jacob

Switzerland

Michelle Jacobs

USA

Henning Jansen

Germany

Monika Jasek

Poland

Juraj Javor

Slovakia

Young Joo Jeon

South Korea

Andrew Jheon

USA

Chunyan Ji

China

Nathalie Jonca

France

Rebecca Jones

UK

Paweł Jóźków

Poland

Kerstin Junker

Germany

Alexander Kanapin

UK

Chitra Kannabiran

India

Stavroula Kanoni

UK

Chuan-Liang Kao

Taiwan

Muthusamy Karthikeya

India

Catherine Keegan

USA

Kim Keeling

USA

Jonathan Kerr

Colombia

Daniel Kim

USA

Tomas Kirchhoff

USA

Dimitra Kiritsi

Germany

Robert Klein

USA

Kleopas Kleopa

Cyprus

Stian Knappskog

Norway

Jeroen Knijnenburg

Netherlands

Yuta Kochi

Japan

Daisuke Kohno

Japan

Inke König

Germany

Fariba Koohdani

Iran

Neeltje Kootstra

Netherlands

Dieter Kotzot

Austria

Kenneth Kraemer

USA

Michael Kruer

USA

Ho-Chang Kuo

Taiwan

Diederik Kuster

Netherlands

Baiba Lace

Latvia

Joseph Lam

Canada

Christina Lampe

Germany

Pablo Lapunzina

Spain

Damien Lederer

Belgium

Jong Keuk Lee

South Korea

Sang Hong Lee

Australia

Robert Lee

USA

Paola Leone

USA

Elizabeth Leslie

USA

Ariadne Letra

USA

Andrew Levine

USA

Keshen Li

China

Qiaoli Li

USA

Peining Li

USA

Elaine Lim

USA

Xu Lin

China

Ying-Ju Lin

Taiwan

Anna Lindstrand

Sweden

Beata Lipska

Poland

Zehuan Liu

China

Yutao Liu

USA

Javier Llorca

Spain

Grisel Lopez

USA

Karen Lower

Australia

Weining Lu

USA

Zhengfei Lu

USA

Emanuela Lucci-Cordisco

Italy

Helen Lunt

New Zealand

Ma Luo

Canada

Donia Macartney-Coxson

New Zealand

Deborah Mackay

UK

Kamlesh Madan

Netherlands

Irene Madrigal

Spain

Sajid Malik

Pakistan

Andigoni Malousi

Greece

Francesca Malvestiti

Italy

Eirini Manoli

USA

Forbes Manson

UK

Sahar Mansour

UK

Giuseppe Marangi

Italy

Asaf Marco

Israel

Donna Martin

USA

Flavia Martinez

USA

Kieren Mather

USA

Koichi Matsuda

Japan

Inas Mazen

Egypt

Kenneth Mcelreavey

France

Sean Mcghee

USA

Jim Mcgill

Australia

Heather Mclaughlin

USA

Giuseppe Merla

Italy

David Meyre

France

Adam Milam

USA

Mirta Milic

Croatia

Martina Minnerop

Germany

Ryan Minster

USA

Monica Miozzo

Italy

Mª Dolores Miramar

Spain

Kenichiro Miura

Japan

Rikke Møller

Denmark

David Monk

Spain

Adriana Montaño

USA

Sam Moore

South Africa

Ana Morales

USA

Rinki Murphy

New Zealand

Balint Nagy

Hungary

Shiva Nasirabadi

USA

Sonia Navas-Martin

USA

Mark Nellist

Netherlands

Georges Nemer

Lebanon

Giovanni Neri

Italy

Cornelis Noordam

Netherlands

Antonio Novelli

USA

Małgorzata Nowaczyk

Canada

Michael O'Callaghan

Australia

Tsutomo Ogata

Japan

Gisela Orozco

UK

Harry Ostrer

USA

Olivier Outteryck

France

Darius Paduch

USA

Edenir Palmero

Brazil

John Pappas

USA

Silvia Paracchini

UK

Rossella Parini

Italy

Jason Park

USA

Ji Wan Park

South Korea

David Parry

UK

Karen Pawlowski

USA

Daniel Petrovic

Slovenia

Massimo Pifferi

Italy

Renato Polimanti

USA

Michael Portman

USA

Renata Posmyk

Poland

David Potter

USA

Megan Puckelwartz

USA

Zilong Qiu

China

Hui-Qi Qu

USA

Singh Rajender

India

Feliciano Ramos

Spain

Ahmed Rebai

Tunisia

Hudson Reddon

Canada

Heiko Reutter

Germany

Stefano Romeo

Sweden

Nurit Rosenberg

Israel

Estela Rubio-Gozalbo

Netherlands

Víctor Ruiz-Pérez

Spain

Eric Rush

USA

Kelli Ryckman

USA

Maria Sabater-Lleal

Finland

Norihisa Saeki

Japan

Jørn Sagen

Norway

Jitendra Sahu

India

Lyubov Salnikova

Russia

Ettore Salsano

Italy

Andrew Sandford

Canada

Filippo Santorelli

Italy

Adalberto Santos

Brazil

Vishnupriya Satti

India

Kapaettu Satyamoorthy

India

Ali Sazci

Turkey

André Scherag

Germany

Albert Schinzel

Switzerland

Benedikt Schoser

Germany

Margit Schraders

Netherlands

Valerie Schumacher

USA

Dominik Seelow

Germany

Mark Seielstad

USA

Wenke Seifert

Germany

Andrei Seluanov

USA

Nuno Sepulveda

UK

Leping Shao

China

Adam Shapiro

Canada

Aiden Shearer

USA

Lijing Shen

China

Robert Shenkar

USA

Jung-Bum Shin

USA

Yin Shugart

USA

Marilia Silva

Brazil

Louise Simard

Canada

Robert Sladek

Canada

Anne Slavotinek

USA

Joshua Sommers

USA

Pavel Soucek

Czech Republic

Kamna Srivastava

India

Sandra Staffieri

Australia

Joshua Starmer

USA

Lois Starr

USA

Joshua Stern

USA

Giovanni Stevanin

France

Elsdon Storey

Australia

John Streicher

USA

Ken Sugimoto

Japan

Bhoom Suktitipat

Thailand

Guang Sun

Canada

Isaac Sundar

USA

Miroslav Svoboda

Czech Republic

Gote Swedberg

Sweden

Julia Szendrödi

Germany

Hiromi Tanaka

USA

Clara Tang

Hong Kong

Yaohui Tang

USA

Kai-Fu Tang

China

Nelson Tang

Hong Kong

Marco Tartaglia

Italy

Nicole Tartaglia

USA

Andrew Taylor

USA

Bamidele Tayo

USA

Isabel Tejada Minguez

Spain

Frédérique Tesson

Canada

Sophie Tezenas Du Montcel

France

Sebastien Theriault

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Christian Thiel

Germany

Xiao-Li Tian

China

Maarit Tiirikainen

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Eduardo Tizzano

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Janettet Tong

Australia

Edina Torgyekes

USA

Jorg Tost

France

Lisbeth Tranebjærg

Denmark

Chang-Yong Tsao

USA

Sebahat Turgut

Turkey

Joseph Usset

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Diana Valverde

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Marie van Dijk

Netherlands

Conny van Ravenswaaij

Netherlands

Avinash Veerappa

India

Hannah Verdin

Belgium

Wim Vermeulen

Netherlands

Alexandre Vieira

USA

Robert Vierkant

USA

Saroja Voruganti

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Konstantinos Voskarides

Cyprus

Lahcen Wakrim

Morocco

Keith Walley

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Yu Wang

Singapore

Naveed Wasif

Pakistan

David Watkins

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Ronald Wek

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Sven Wenske

USA

Michael Weston

USA

Marquitta White

USA

Christina Willenborg

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Esko Wiltshire

New Zealand

Nicole Wolf

Netherlands

Henry Wood

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Lawrence Shih Hsin Wu

Taiwan

Jia-Feng Wu

Taiwan

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Singapore

Ying Wu

USA

Junxia Xie

China

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China

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USA

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USA

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USA

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Italy

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Italy

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