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 15 (2014).

Rami Abou Jamra

Germany

Khaled Abu-Amero

Saudi Arabia

David Adams

USA

Amegnona Agbonon

Togo

Nurten Akarsu

Turkey

Ersin Akgöllü

Turkey

Bassam Ali

United Arab Emirates

Richard Allen

USA

Carlos Alvarez

USA

Ping An

USA

Maria Grazia Andreassi

Italy

Muhammad Ansar

Pakistan

Minoti Apte

Belize

Rector Arya

USA

Halil Ibrahim Atasoy

Turkey

Tania Attie-Bitach

France

Kit Sing Au

USA

Takuya Awata

Japan

Julia Azimova

Russia

Alexis Baass

Canada

Hideo Baba

Japan

Anwar Baban

Italy

Albino Bacolla

USA

Raffaele Badolato

Italy

Yoshiyuki Ban

Japan

Sandro Banfi

Italy

Siddharth Banka

United Kingdom

Donatella Barisani

Italy

Sulman Basit

Saudi Arabia

Omer Faruk Bayrak

Turkey

Tara Beattie

Canada

Jaroslav Bendl

Czech Republic

Kristina Bengtsson Bostrom

Sweden

Conceicao Bettencourt

United Kingdom

Weimin Bi

USA

Alexander Bialasiewicz

Qatar

Harald Binder

Germany

Alan Bittles

Australia

Francisco J Blanco

Spain

Jean-Louis Blouin

Switzerland

Elizabeth Blue

USA

Carolyn Bondy

USA

Renato Borgatti

Italy

Audrey Boutron

France

Patrice Bouvagnet

France

Oliver Brandau

Austria

Michael Briggs

United Kingdom

Frank Brouwers

Netherlands

Claudio Bruno

Italy

Tomas Buchler

Czech Republic

Kathryn Burdon

Australia

Matthew Butler

USA

Daniela Caccamo

Italy

Sebastiano Calandra

Italy

Bert Callewaert

Belgium

Federico Canzian

Germany

Chuanhai Cao

USA

Jorge Capdevila

USA

Cynthia Cardoso

Brazil

Aaron Carman

USA

Yaron Carmi

USA

Melissa Carter

Canada

Ferran Casals

Canada

Elizabeth Chao

USA

Geetha Chittoor

USA

Pietro Chiurazzi

Italy

Yoon Shin Cho

South Korea

Byung Yoon Choi

South Korea

Murim Choi

USA

Hélène Choquet

USA

Shu-Chun Chuang

Taiwan

Marco Cicardi

Italy

Marina Colombi

Italy

Daniela Concolino

Italy

William Copeland

USA

Francesca Cordero

Italy

Holly Cukier

USA

Raymond Dalgleish

United Kingdom

Bruno Dallapiccola

Italy

Sumita Danda

India

Cesare Danesino

Italy

Dezso David

Portugal

Andrea Davies

United Kingdom

Andrew Davis

Australia

Alessandro De Luca

Italy

Valli De Re

Italy

Hans Deckmyn

Belgium

Amos Deinard

USA

Maria Lisa Dentici

Italy

Terry Derks

Netherlands

Perundurai Dhandapany

USA

Manuel Diaz-Rios

Puerto Rico

Maria Cristina Digilio

Italy

Johanna Distefano

USA

Elise Drouin

USA

Malgorzata Drozniewska

Poland

David Dyment

Canada

Michael Eccles

New Zealand

Ayman El-Hattab

United Arab Emirates

Hatem El-Shanti

Qatar

Bahadir Ercan

Turkey

Ebrahim Eskandari-Nasab

Iran

Carmen Espinós

Spain

Raul Estevez

Spain

Begoña Ezquieta

Spain

Tove Fall

Sweden

David Fardo

USA

Carmen Fava

Italy

Laura Fejerman

USA

José Fernández-Fernández

Spain

Ceres Fernandez-Rozadilla

United Kingdom

Giovanni Battista Ferrero

Italy

Jean Feunteun

France

Joan Fibla

Spain

Marco Fichera

Italy

Judith Field

Australia

Marcus Fischer

Germany

Ilenia Foffa

Italy

Jose Manuel Fragoso

Mexico

Lude Franke

Netherlands

Alexis Frazier-Wood

USA

Guy Froyen

Belgium

Ricardo Fujita

Peru

Frédéric Fumeron

France

Nobuo Fuse

Japan

Eija Gaily

Finland

Meili Gao

China

Peisong Gao

USA

Eva Garcia Galloway

Spain

Valentina Gatta

Italy

Maria Gazouli

Greece

Bruce Gelb

USA

Célia Giacheti

Brazil

Michael Gill

Ireland

Mara Giordano

Italy

Santhosh Girirajan

USA

Joseph Glessner

USA

Michael Gollob

Canada

Roser Gonzalez-Duarte

Spain

Consuelo González-Manchón

Spain

Justin Grobe

USA

Anna Grzywacz

Poland

Encarna Guillen-Navarro

Spain

Pierre Hainaut

France

Hanan Hamamy

Switzerland

Megumi Hara

Japan

Muhammad Hassan

Pakistan

James Hejtmancik

USA

Chew-Kiat Heng

Singapore

Concepción Hernandez

Spain

Stephanie Hicks

USA

Kenji Hirayama

Japan

Lynne Hocking

United Kingdom

Janet Hoenicka

Spain

Peter Holmans

United Kingdom

Katharina Hopp

USA

H Dean Hosgood

USA

Xuwei Hou

China

Jinyu Huang

China

Tao Huang

USA

Yoran Hummel

Netherlands

Susan Huson

United Kingdom

Bettina Iliopoulou

USA

Ituro Inoue

Japan

Darby Jack

USA

Linda Jakobsen

Denmark

Mohamed Jamal

USA

Andreas Janecke

Austria

Lilian Jara

Chile

Juraj Javor

Slovakia

Musharraf Jelani

Saudi Arabia

Emma Jenkinson

United Kingdom

Victor Jin

USA

Wendy Jones

United Kingdom

Lidia Karabon

Poland

Fiona Karet

United Kingdom

Ariana Kariminejad

Iran

Daniel Kelberman

United Kingdom

Maria Keller

Germany

Jack Kent

USA

Madhu Khullar

India

Hye-Sun Kim

South Korea

Ying-Chin Ko

Taiwan

Yuta Kochi

Japan

Inke König

Germany

Michihiro Kono

Japan

Christian Kratz

Germany

Juozas Kupcinskas

Lithuania

Kerstin Kutsche

Germany

Lilia Laadhar

Tunisia

Riccardo Lacchini

Brazil

Vasiliki Lagou

United Kingdom

Kent Lai

USA

Seema Lalani

USA

Allen Lamb

USA

Edward Lammer

USA

Klea Lamnissou

Greece

Conxi Lazaro

Spain

Sang Hong Lee

Australia

Paul Leeson

United Kingdom

Petra Leidinger

Germany

Elizabeth Leslie

USA

Joshua Lewis

Australia

Grant Lewison

United Kingdom

Alexander Lezhava

Singapore

Thomas Liehr

Germany

Petra Liskova

Czech Republic

Yu Liu

China

Hongliang Liu

USA

Kuo Liu

China

Margarita López-Trascasa

Spain

Ru-Band Lu

Taiwan

Hermann-Josef Lüdecke

Germany

Xiaofeng Lv

China

Jonathan Magaña

Mexico

Sajid Malik

Pakistan

Eirini Manoli

USA

Forbes Manson

United Kingdom

Ashham Mansur

Germany

Anna Marabotti

Italy

Nicholas Marini

USA

Fernando Marson

Brazil

Laura Martinez

Mexico

Davide Martorana

Italy

Céline Mascaux

Canada

Saber Masmoudi

Tunisia

Tatsuo Matsunaga

Japan

Hirotaka Matsuo

Japan

Sylvie Mazoyer

France

Aj Mcknight

United Kingdom

Terri Mcveigh

Ireland

Christopher Medway

USA

Alison Merikangas

Ireland

Giuseppe Merla

Italy

Thurman Merritt

USA

Ludwine Messiaen

USA

Luisa Mestroni

USA

Ingrid Meulenbelt

Netherlands

Zosia Miedzybrodzka

United Kingdom

Montserrat Mila

Spain

Le Min

USA

Parvin Mirmiran

Iran

Jean-Paul Misson

Belgium

Laura Mitchell

USA

Deepak Modi

India

Seyed Mojtaba Mohaddes Ardebili

Iran

Angela Morgan

Australia

Hiroyuki Morino

Japan

Takayuki Morisaki

Japan

Ian Morison

New Zealand

Amelia Morrone

Italy

Linda Jane Mullins

United Kingdom

Arasambattu Kannan Munirajan

India

Patricia Munroe

United Kingdom

Alessio Naccarati

Italy

Muhammad Naeem

Pakistan

Keisuke Nagasaki

Japan

Shalima Nair

Australia

Steven Narod

Canada

Giovanni Neri

Italy

Marcella Neri

Italy

Sarah May Nikkel

Canada

Vladyslav Nikolayevskyy

United Kingdom

Marco Oderda

Italy

Trine Baur Opstad

Norway

Kelly Ormond

USA

Nick Orr

United Kingdom

Alfredo Orrico

Italy

Masao Ota

Japan

Laura Ottini

Italy

Tayfun Ozcelik

Turkey

Hilal Ozdag

Turkey

Giacomo Maria Paganotti

Italy

Barry Palmer

New Zealand

Stephen Palmer

Australia

Edenir Palmero

Brazil

Jane Pappas

Canada

Sunil Parikh

USA

Rossella Parini

Italy

Sofia Pavanello

Italy

Guiomar Perez De Nanclares

Spain

Flor Maria Perez-Campo

Spain

Hervé Perron

Switzerland

Claudio Pignata

Italy

Hugo Pinheiro

Portugal

Grzegorz Placha

Poland

Laila Poisson

USA

Ulrich Preuss

Germany

Oliver Puk

Germany

Annick Raas-Rothschild

Israel

Sivaramakrishna Rachakonda

Germany

Singh Rajender

India

Ana Ramalhinho

Portugal

Gudrun Rappold

Germany

Frank Rauch

Canada

Pierre Ray

France

Hanna Rennert

USA

Helen Rizos

Australia

Cosmeri Rizzato

Italy

Sébastien Robiou Du Pont

Canada

Nurit Rosenberg

Israel

Massimiliano Rossi

France

Margalida Rotger

Switzerland

Elisa Rubino

Italy

Malgorzata Rydzanicz

Poland

Saverio Sabina

Italy

Christoph Saely

Austria

Maria Saez

Spain

Anavaj Sakuntabhai

France

Pascual Sanchez-Juan

Spain

Richard Sandford

United Kingdom

Filippo Santorelli

Italy

Regie Lyn Santos-Cortez

USA

Kapaettu Satyamoorthy

India

Pascale Saugier-Veber

France

Judy Savige

Australia

Anna Savoia

Italy

Fernando Scaglia

USA

Raquel Scarel-Caminaga

Brazil

André Scherag

Germany

George Schmid

Kazakhstan

Markus Scholz

Germany

Mark Seielstad

USA

Ali Sengul

Turkey

Theodoros Sergentanis

Greece

Marco Seri

Italy

Tamim Shaikh

USA

Aiden Shearer

USA

Yiping Shen

USA

Gabriella Silvestri

Italy

Carly Siskind

USA

Sarah Smithson

United Kingdom

Rafal Sobota

USA

Xavier Solé

Spain

Hugo Sousa

Portugal

Henriët Springelkamp

Netherlands

Sandesh Chakravarthy Sreenath Nagamani

USA

Pawel Stankiewicz

USA

Janina Staub

Germany

Daniela Steinberger

Germany

Alexandre Stewart

Canada

Heidi Stöhr

Germany

Meitsz Su

Taiwan

Masaya Sugiyama

Japan

Lone Sunde

Denmark

Gérard Tachdjian

France

Qizhu Tang

China

Toshiyasu Taniguchi

USA

Muhammad Tariq

USA

Flora Tassone

USA

Sean Tavtigian

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Sarah Taylor

USA

Sebastien Theriault

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Bobby Thomas

USA

Hakan Toka

USA

Asli Tolun

Turkey

Anke Tonjes

Germany

Frederic Tort

Spain

Christine Tranchant

France

David-Alexandre Tregouet

France

Rossella Tricarico

Italy

Barbara Triggs-Raine

Canada

Tai-Chung Tseng

Taiwan

Gregory Tsongalis

USA

Kam-Wah Tsui

USA

Hironori Ueda

Japan

Reinhard Ullmann

Germany

Takeshi Usui

Japan

Christine Van Broeckhoven

Belgium

Esther Van De Vosse

Netherlands

Linda Van Der Tol

Netherlands

Wim Van Hul

Belgium

Lut Van Laer

Belgium

Cecilia Vecoli

Italy

Paolo Vezzoni

Italy

Ales Vicha

Czech Republic

Alexandre Vieira

USA

Mauno Vihinen

Sweden

Bjørn Egil Vikse

Norway

Tatyana Vlaykova

Bulgaria

Lorenz Von Seidlein

Australia

Konstantinos Voskarides

Cyprus

Veronika Vymetalkova

Czech Republic

Keith Walley

Canada

Junbai Wang

Norway

Tzu-Hao Wang

Taiwan

Kui Wang

China

Gannan Wang

China

Niels Weinhold

Germany

Marquitta White

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Margo Whiteford

United Kingdom

James Whitehorn

United Kingdom

Christina Willenborg

Germany

Judy Wong

Canada

Xin-Yi Xia

China

Chao Xing

USA

Kui Xu

USA

Raquel Yahyaoui

Spain

Sailu Yellaboina

USA

Shea Ping Yip

China

Ke-Da Yu

China

Yuri Yurov

Russia

Laurie Zawertailo

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Qi Zeng

USA

Ling Zeng

China

Sen Zhang

China

Hua Zhao

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Qing Zheng

USA

Yan Zheng

USA

Ying Zhu

USA

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Italy