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 13 (2012).

Ryan Abo

USA

Adebowale Adeyemo

USA

Ilir Agalliu

USA

Atif Ahmed

USA

Guruprasad Aithal

UK

Eleni Aklillu

Sweden

Elizabeth Algar

Australia

Bassam Ali

United Arab Emirates

Rando Allikmets

USA

Richard Anney

Ireland

Muhammad Ansar

Pakistan

Marcello Arca

Italy

Philip Asherson

UK

Valeria Bafunno

Italy

Pantelis Bagos

Greece

Melanie Bahlo

Australia

Siddharth Banka

UK

Michael Barnes

UK

Cristina Basso

Italy

Veronique Bataille

UK

Gareth Baynam

Australia

Britt-Maria Beckmann

Germany

Elijah Behr

UK

Evangelos Bellos

UK

Lorenzo Beretta

Italy

Arthur Bergen

Netherlands

Andreia Bettencourt

Portugal

Connie Bezzina

Netherlands

M.Z.A. Bhuiyan

Switzerland

Louise Bicknell

UK

Ayşe Bilgiç

Turkey

Firouzeh Biramijamal

Iran

Kathryn Blake

USA

Luigi Boccuto

USA

Amelie Bonnefond

France

Paulina Borkowska

Poland

Mridula Bose

India

Yohan Bosse

Canada

Yvonne Böttcher

Germany

Nicoletta Botto

Italy

Nabila Bouatia-Naji

France

Kym Boycott

Canada

Francesco Brancati

Italy

Gerome Breen

UK

John Brehm

USA

Paul Breslin

USA

Nicola Brunetti-Pierri

Italy

Damien Bruno

Australia

William Bruno

Italy

Helene Bruyere

Canada

David Bunyan

UK

Adam Butterworth

UK

Miguel Calero

Spain

Lisa Cameron

Canada

Vicky Cameron

New Zealand

Craig Campbell

Canada

Natalia Cannelli

Italy

Carlos Cano Gutierrez

Spain

Federico Canzian

Germany

Wangsen Cao

China

Yunxia Cao

China

Valeria Capra

Italy

Elena Cardaioli

Italy

Suzan Carmichael

USA

Luis Carvajal Carmona

UK

Agostinho Carvalho

Italy

Sergi Castellvi-Bel

Spain

Marco Castori

Italy

Gianpiero Cavalleri

Ireland

Angelo Baldassare Cefalu

Italy

Peter Celec

Slovakia

Marie Cerna

Czech Republic

Stormy Chamberlain

USA

Giriraj Chandak

India

Sybil Charrière

France

Chih-Ping Chen

Taiwan

Suet Nee Chen

USA

Zhuo Chen

USA

Yu-Ching Cheng

USA

Bernard Cheung

Hong Kong

Pietro Chiurazzi

Italy

Young Min Choi

Korea, South

Jieun Choi

Korea, South

Helene Choquet

USA

Imke Christiaans

Netherlands

Vincent Christoffels

Netherlands

Denise Christofolini

Brazil

Shu-Chun Chuang

UK

Paola Ciotti

Italy

Jacqueline Cloos

Netherlands

Dawn Coletta

USA

Oscar Cordero

Spain

Victoria Cortessis

USA

Helena Cortez-Pinto

Portugal

Stefania Corti

Italy

Sara Courtneidge

USA

Damien Croteau-Chonka

USA

Eugenia Cruz

Portugal

Daniel Cyr

Canada

Thiago da Silva

Brazil

Min Dai

China

Denise Daley

USA

GM Dallinga-Thie

Netherlands

Collet Dandara

South Africa

Saeed Daneshmandi

Iran

Paul de Bakker

USA

Lawrence de Koning

USA

Tim De Meyer

Belgium

Claudia Vitoria De Moura Gallo

Brazil

Marina De Rosa

Italy

Maria de Sousa

Portugal

Matt Deardorff

USA

George Dedoussis

Greece

Abbas Dehghan

Netherlands

Ranjan Deka

USA

Jesús Delgado Calle

Spain

Brian Delisle

UK

Esteban Dell'Angelica

USA

Julie Demars

France

Hao Deng

USA

Rozalia Dimitriou

UK

James Dowling

USA

Ilias Doxiadis

Netherlands

Jubao Duan

USA

Thomas Eggermann

Germany

Stefanie Eggers

Australia

Philipp Ehlermann

Germany

Elisabet Einarsdottir

Finland

Laure Elens

Belgium

Nathan Ellis

USA

Julia El-Sayed Moustafa

UK

Matthias Elstner

Germany

Charlotta Enerback

Sweden

James Engert

Canada

Emel Ergul

Turkey

Héctor Escobar-Morreale

Spain

Gareth Evans

UK

Larissa Fabritz

Germany

Yi-Ming Fan

China

Silvia Fargion

Italy

Paula Faustino

Portugal

Martha Felini

USA

Jane Ferguson

USA

Agustin Fernandez

Spain

Carlos Flores

Spain

Erick Forno

USA

Rachel Freathy

UK

Robert Fredriksson

Sweden

Ana Freitas

Portugal

Jan Friedman

Canada

Mike Friez

USA

Jennifer Frost

USA

Maria Fuciarelli

Italy

Tibor Fulop

USA

Frédéric Fumeron

France

Frédéric Galacteros

France

Louise Gallagher

Ireland

Elena Garcia-Martin

Spain

Valentina Gatta

Italy

Massimo Gennarelli

Italy

Maurizio Genuardi

Italy

Manuela Germeshausen

Germany

Guillermo Gervasini

Spain

Uday Ghoshal

India

Todd Gibson

USA

Hendrika Ginjaar

Netherlands

David Godler

Australia

Kwang-Il Goh

Korea, South

Marilda Goncalves

Brazil

Maria Gonsebatt

Mexico

Paola Grammatico

Italy

Struan Grant

USA

Julia Greer

USA

Dongfeng Gu

China

Regina Maria Guaragna

Brazil

Daniel Guerrier

France

Mingzhou Guo

China

Xiong Guo

China

Zhongmin Guo

USA

Christina Gurnett

USA

Fiorella Gurrieri

Italy

Nancy Hadley Miller

USA

Won-Ho Hahn

South Korea

D. Michael Hallman

USA

Jiali Han

USA

Dana Hancock

USA

Torben Hansen

Denmark

Sarah Harten

Australia

Qurratulain Hasan

India

Mohammad Hashemi

Iran

Ziarih Hawi

Australia

Ping-An He

China

Xiang-Ge He

China

James Hejtmancik

USA

Jose Hernandez

Spain

Concepción Hernández-Chico

Spain

Nattiya Hirankarn

Thailand

James Hixson

USA

Gunter Hoglinger

Germany

Laura Horsfall

UK

Kikuko Hotta

Japan

James Howe

USA

Chuen Hsueh

Taiwan

Zhibin Hu

China

Maria Hughes

UK

Chia-Cheng Hung

Taiwan

Maria Hurle

Spain

Mohammad Ilyas

UK

Ken Inoue

Japan

Ituro Inoue

Japan

Iuliana Ionita-Laza

USA

Heikki Jarvinen

Finland

Yu-Wu Jiang

China

Philippe Joly

France

Erik Jönsson

Sweden

Suh-Hang Juo

Taiwan

Bernadette Kalman

Germany

Stavroula Kanoni

UK

Tom Karlsen

Norway

Tadafumi Kato

Japan

Tomohiro Katsuya

Japan

Xiayi Ke

UK

Dagmar Keller

Switzerland

Chiea Khor

Singapore

Madhu Khullar

India

Stefan Kiechl

Austria

Akinori Kimura

Japan

Youlia Kirova

France

Krzysztof Kiryluk

USA

Robert Kiss

Canada

Hiroaki Kitaoka

Japan

Rick Kittles

USA

Stanislav Kmoch

Czech Republic

Julian Knight

UK

Barbara Kofler

Austria

Haris Kokotas

Greece

Yoshihiko Kominato

Japan

Tamara Koopmann

Canada

Peter Kovacs

Germany

Ian Krantz

USA

Marcin Krawczyk

Germany

David Kreil

Austria

Christos Kroupis

Greece

Takeo Kubota

Japan

Aya Kuchiba

USA

Jitender Kumar

Sweden

Fuat Kurbanov

USA

Mateusz Kurzawski

Poland

Nan Laird

USA

Jatinder Lamba

USA

Pier Lambiase

UK

Xun Lan

USA

Joung-Liang Lan

Taiwan

Tanja Langsenlehner

Austria

Matthew Lanktree

Canada

Catherine Laprise

Canada

Bernard Le Foll

Canada

Solena Le Scouarnec

UK

Cecile Lecoeure

France

Pauline Lee

USA

Mikko Lehtovirta

Finland

Marianne Leruez-Ville

France

Gaetan Lesca

France

Esther Leshinsky-Silver

Israel

Ben Li

USA

Kuanyu Li

China

Jialiang Li

Singapore

John Lima

USA

Cheng-Chieh Lin

Taiwan

Javier Llorca

Spain

Paul Lochhead

USA

Katja Lohmann

Germany

Marie-Anne Loriot

France

Fengmin Lu

China

Michelle Luciano

UK

Hung Luu

USA

Ikuhiro Maeda

Japan

Shiro Maeda

Japan

Shingo Maeda

Japan

Jane Maguire

Australia

Nejat Mahdieh

Iran

Nerea Maiz

Spain

Carmen Maldonado-Bernal

Mexico

Giovanni Malerba

Italy

Ayse Tulin Mansur

Turkey

Agustin Martinez

Chile

Tara Matise

USA

Ross McManus

Ireland

Kim McBride

USA

Thomas McDonald

USA

Ken McElreavey

France

Pascal McKeown

UK

Benjamin Meder

Germany

Carolina Medina-Gomez

Netherlands

Andre Megarbane

Lebanon

Lorenzo Melchor

UK

George Mellick

Australia

Ludwine Messiaen

USA

David Meyre

Canada

Maria Giuseppina Miano

Italy

Anne Marie Minihane

UK

Monica Miozzo

Italy

Masatomo Miura

Japan

Jamal Mohamed

USA

Pierre Morange

France

Rodrigo Moreno-Reyes

Belgium

Derek Morris

Ireland

Richard Myers

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Italy

Muhammad Naeem

Pakistan

Ramaswamy Narayanan

USA

Mark Nellist

Netherlands

Grethe Neumann Andersen

Denmark

Finn Cilius Nielsen

Denmark

Stefano Nobile

Italy

Ann Nordgren

Sweden

Margareta Nordling

Sweden

Boris Novakovic

Australia

William Oetting

USA

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Shoichiro Ono

USA

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USA

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USA

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USA

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Netherlands

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USA

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USA

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USA

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Konstantinos Rouskas

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Italy

Brid Ryan

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USA

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Italy

Nicola Santoro

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José Antonio Sainz

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José Santos

Chile

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Shizuka Sasazuki

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Shigeru Satoh

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Brian Schutte

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Ronnie Sebro

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Shantanu Sengupta

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Michael Shapero

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Joseph Shieh

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Beverley Shields

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Thailand

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