In its long history it has published important papers in the field of genetics, including the first discovery of the correct human chromosome count by Joe Hin Tijo and Albert Levan in 1956.

[1] In the post-genomic era, the scope of Hereditas has evolved to include any research on genomic analysis.

In May 2015 Hereditas was re-launched and became part of the portfolio of the open access publisher Biomed Central (BMC), now owned by Springer Nature.

Ramin Massoumi (2024-, in parallel to Yongyong Shi) Handling editors: Fumihiko Takeuchi, Julhash U. Kazi, Hamed Kioumarsi, Eduardo López Urrutia, Hua-Sheng Chiu, Yongyong Shi, Lu Chen

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