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Celebrating 100 years of GENETICS

In 2016 GENETICS celebrated 100 years of communicating science. During 2016 we published a series of Commentaries by experts examining where the science of heredity is heading in the second century of GENETICS, on topics ranging from human genetics to population genetics, from ancient DNA, mutagenesis, DNA sequencing, and quantitative genetics to genetics education. Other articles focused on the history of GENETICS and how significant discoveries of the past shape modern work. Twenty-four GENETICS Classics—influential articles from the journal’s first century—were highlighted in a monthly series. We hope these papers inspiration for your own scientific discoveries.

Read more about the Centennial in the editorial below.

A New Century of GENETICS
Mark Johnston
GENETICS 2016; 202:1-2.

Classics

The Sustained Impact of Model Organisms—in Genetics and Epigenetics
Nancy M Bonini and Shelley L Berger
Genetics, Volume 205, Issue 1, 1 January 2017, Pages 1–4, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.187864
Published: 01 January 2017
The Full Breadth of Mendel’s Genetics
Peter J van Dijk and T H Noel Ellis
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 4, 1 December 2016, Pages 1327–1336, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.196626
Published: 01 December 2016
A Bibliometric History of the Journal GENETICS
Natalie Telis and others
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 4, 1 December 2016, Pages 1337–1342, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.196964
Published: 01 December 2016
Paul Nurse and Pierre Thuriaux on wee Mutants and Cell Cycle Control
Andrew Murray
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 4, 1 December 2016, Pages 1325–1326, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.197186
Published: 01 December 2016
Edward East on the Mendelian Basis of Quantitative Trait Variation
Michael Turelli
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 4, 1 December 2016, Pages 1321–1323, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.196915
Published: 01 December 2016
Selfish DNA and Epigenetic Repression Revisited
Susan M Gasser
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 3, 1 November 2016, Pages 837–839, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.196287
Published: 01 November 2016
Alfred Sturtevant Walks into a Bar: Gene Dosage, Gene Position, and Unequal Crossing Over in Drosophila
Mariana F Wolfner and Danny E Miller
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 3, 1 November 2016, Pages 833–835, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.195891
Published: 01 November 2016
Charlesworth et al. on Background Selection and Neutral Diversity
Stephen I Wright
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 3, 1 November 2016, Pages 829–832, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.196170
Published: 01 November 2016
Probing the Depths of Biological Diversity During the Second Century of GENETICS
Linnea Sandell and Sarah P Otto
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 2, 1 October 2016, Pages 395–400, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.187625
Published: 01 October 2016
Darwin’s Influence on Mendel: Evidence from a New Translation of Mendel’s Paper
Daniel J Fairbanks and Scott Abbott
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 2, 1 October 2016, Pages 401–405, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.194613
Published: 01 October 2016
Pritchard, Stephens, and Donnelly on Population Structure
John Novembre
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 2, 1 October 2016, Pages 391–393, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.195164
Published: 01 October 2016
Experiments on Plant Hybrids by Gregor Mendel
Scott Abbott and Daniel J Fairbanks
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 2, 1 October 2016, Pages 407–422, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.195198
Published: 01 October 2016
Fumio Tajima and the Origin of Modern Population Genetics
Rasmus Nielsen
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 2, 1 October 2016, Pages 389–390, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.195271
Published: 01 October 2016
Teaching Genetics: Past, Present, and Future
Michelle K Smith and William B Wood
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 1, 1 September 2016, Pages 5–10, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.187138
Published: 01 September 2016
Barbara McClintock on Defining the Unstable Genome
Marnie E Halpern
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 1, 1 September 2016, Pages 3–4, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.194092
Published: 01 September 2016
Medical Genetics and the First Studies of the Genetics of Populations in Mexico
Ana Barahona
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 1, 1 September 2016, Pages 11–19, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.191767
Published: 01 September 2016
Sydney Brenner on the Genetics of Caenorhabditis elegans
Bob Goldstein
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 1, 1 September 2016, Pages 1–2, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.194084
Published: 01 September 2016
Horvitz and Sulston on Caenorhabditis elegans Cell Lineage Mutants
Kenneth J Kemphues
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 4, 1 August 2016, Pages 1485–1487, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.193003
Published: 01 August 2016
Hubby and Lewontin on Protein Variation in Natural Populations: When Molecular Genetics Came to the Rescue of Population Genetics
Brian Charlesworth and others
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 4, 1 August 2016, Pages 1497–1503, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.185975
Published: 01 August 2016
Navigating the Phenotype Frontier: The Monarch Initiative
Julie A McMurry and others
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 4, 1 August 2016, Pages 1491–1495, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.188870
Published: 01 August 2016
The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Survivor Studies: Discrepancies Between Results and General Perception
Bertrand R Jordan
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 4, 1 August 2016, Pages 1505–1512, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.191759
Published: 01 August 2016
Marcus Rhoades on Preferential Segregation in Maize
James A Birchler
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 4, 1 August 2016, Pages 1489–1490, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.193011
Published: 01 August 2016
Weaving a Tapestry from Threads Spun by Geneticists: The Series Perspectives on Genetics, 1987–2008
William F Dove
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 3, 1 July 2016, Pages 1011–1022, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.191155
Published: 01 July 2016
Alfred Sturtevant and George Beadle Untangle Inversions
R Scott Hawley and Barry Ganetzky
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 3, 1 July 2016, Pages 1001–1003, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.191825
Published: 01 July 2016
Back to the Future: Mutant Hunts Are Still the Way To Go
Fred Winston and Douglas Koshland
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 3, 1 July 2016, Pages 1007–1010, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.180596
Published: 01 July 2016
Na Li and Matthew Stephens on Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium
Yun S Song
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 3, 1 July 2016, Pages 1005–1006, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.191817
Published: 01 July 2016
Curt Stern on Somatic Crossing Over
James A Birchler
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 2, 1 June 2016, Pages 615–616, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.190652
Published: 01 June 2016
A Brief History of Schizosaccharomyces pombe Research: A Perspective Over the Past 70 Years
Peter A Fantes and Charles S Hoffman
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 2, 1 June 2016, Pages 621–629, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.189407
Published: 01 June 2016
Joshua Lederberg on Bacterial Recombination
Mark Johnston
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 2, 1 June 2016, Pages 613–614, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.190637
Published: 01 June 2016
Massively Parallel Genetics
Jay Shendure and Stanley Fields
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 2, 1 June 2016, Pages 617–619, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.180562
Published: 01 June 2016
Meuwissen et al. on Genomic Selection
Dirk-Jan de Koning
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 1, 1 May 2016, Pages 5–7, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.189795
Published: 01 May 2016
Genetic Time Travel
Johannes Krause and Svante Pääbo
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 1, 1 May 2016, Pages 9–12, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.187856
Published: 01 May 2016
Eric Lander and David Botstein on Mapping Quantitative Traits
Gary A Churchill
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 1, 1 May 2016, Pages 1–3, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.189803
Published: 01 May 2016
Biochemical Genetics and Molecular Biology: The Contributions of George Beadle and Edward Tatum
Bernard S Strauss
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 1, 1 May 2016, Pages 13–20, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.188995
Published: 01 May 2016
An Incomplete Understanding of Human Genetic Variation
John Huddleston and Evan E Eichler
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 4, 1 April 2016, Pages 1251–1254, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.180539
Published: 31 March 2016
Motoo Kimura and James Crow on the Infinitely Many Alleles Model
Warren J Ewens
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 4, 1 April 2016, Pages 1243–1245, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.188433
Published: 31 March 2016
Lindsley and Sandler et al. on Gene Dosage and the Drosophila Genome
Mariana F Wolfner
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 4, 1 April 2016, Pages 1247–1249, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.188441
Published: 31 March 2016
Richard Hudson and Norman Kaplan on the Coalescent Process
Nicholas H Barton
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 3, 1 March 2016, Pages 865–866, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.187542
Published: 02 March 2016
Mutation and Human Exceptionalism: Our Future Genetic Load
Michael Lynch
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 3, 1 March 2016, Pages 869–875, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.180471
Published: 02 March 2016
Is Continued Genetic Improvement of Livestock Sustainable?
William G Hill
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 3, 1 March 2016, Pages 877–881, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.186650
Published: 02 March 2016
L. C. Dunn and Donald Charles on Quantitative Traits in the Mouse
John C Schimenti
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 3, 1 March 2016, Pages 867–868, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.187534
Published: 02 March 2016
Salvador Luria and Max Delbrück on Random Mutation and Fluctuation Tests
Andrew Murray
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 2, 1 February 2016, Pages 367–368, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.186163
Published: 05 February 2016
Hermann Muller on Measuring Mutation Rates
Cristy Gelling
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 2, 1 February 2016, Pages 369–370, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.186171
Published: 05 February 2016
Human Complex Trait Genetics in the 21st Century
Peter M Visscher
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 2, 1 February 2016, Pages 377–379, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.180513
Published: 03 February 2016
The Centenary of GENETICS: Bridges to the Future
Barry Ganetzky and R Scott Hawley
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 1, 1 January 2016, Pages 15–23, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.180182
Published: 28 December 2015
Admixture Models and the Breeding Systems of H. S. Jennings: A GENETICS Connection
Noah A Rosenberg
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 1, 1 January 2016, Pages 9–13, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.181057
Published: 28 December 2015
Sewall Wright on Evolution in Mendelian Populations and the “Shifting Balance”
Nicholas H Barton
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 1, 1 January 2016, Pages 3–4, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.184796
Published: 28 December 2015
Theodosius Dobzhansky on Hybrid Sterility and Speciation
Jerry A Coyne
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 1, 1 January 2016, Pages 5–7, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.184770
Published: 28 December 2015
Pick Your Poisson: An Educational Primer for Luria and Delbrück’s Classic Paper
Philip M Meneely
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 2, 1 February 2016, Pages 371–375, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.184564
Published: 05 February 2015

Commentary

The Sustained Impact of Model Organisms—in Genetics and Epigenetics
Nancy M Bonini and Shelley L Berger
Genetics, Volume 205, Issue 1, 1 January 2017, Pages 1–4, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.187864
Published: 01 January 2017
A Bibliometric History of the Journal GENETICS
Natalie Telis and others
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 4, 1 December 2016, Pages 1337–1342, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.196964
Published: 01 December 2016
Selfish DNA and Epigenetic Repression Revisited
Susan M Gasser
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 3, 1 November 2016, Pages 837–839, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.196287
Published: 01 November 2016
Probing the Depths of Biological Diversity During the Second Century of GENETICS
Linnea Sandell and Sarah P Otto
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 2, 1 October 2016, Pages 395–400, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.187625
Published: 01 October 2016
Teaching Genetics: Past, Present, and Future
Michelle K Smith and William B Wood
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 1, 1 September 2016, Pages 5–10, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.187138
Published: 01 September 2016
Navigating the Phenotype Frontier: The Monarch Initiative
Julie A McMurry and others
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 4, 1 August 2016, Pages 1491–1495, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.188870
Published: 01 August 2016
Back to the Future: Mutant Hunts Are Still the Way To Go
Fred Winston and Douglas Koshland
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 3, 1 July 2016, Pages 1007–1010, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.180596
Published: 01 July 2016
Massively Parallel Genetics
Jay Shendure and Stanley Fields
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 2, 1 June 2016, Pages 617–619, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.180562
Published: 01 June 2016
Genetic Time Travel
Johannes Krause and Svante Pääbo
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 1, 1 May 2016, Pages 9–12, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.187856
Published: 01 May 2016
An Incomplete Understanding of Human Genetic Variation
John Huddleston and Evan E Eichler
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 4, 1 April 2016, Pages 1251–1254, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.180539
Published: 31 March 2016
Is Continued Genetic Improvement of Livestock Sustainable?
William G Hill
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 3, 1 March 2016, Pages 877–881, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.186650
Published: 02 March 2016
Human Complex Trait Genetics in the 21st Century
Peter M Visscher
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 2, 1 February 2016, Pages 377–379, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.180513
Published: 03 February 2016
Admixture Models and the Breeding Systems of H. S. Jennings: A GENETICS Connection
Noah A Rosenberg
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 1, 1 January 2016, Pages 9–13, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.181057
Published: 28 December 2015

Perspectives

The Full Breadth of Mendel’s Genetics
Peter J van Dijk and T H Noel Ellis
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 4, 1 December 2016, Pages 1327–1336, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.196626
Published: 01 December 2016
Darwin’s Influence on Mendel: Evidence from a New Translation of Mendel’s Paper
Daniel J Fairbanks and Scott Abbott
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 2, 1 October 2016, Pages 401–405, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.194613
Published: 01 October 2016
Experiments on Plant Hybrids by Gregor Mendel
Scott Abbott and Daniel J Fairbanks
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 2, 1 October 2016, Pages 407–422, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.195198
Published: 01 October 2016
Medical Genetics and the First Studies of the Genetics of Populations in Mexico
Ana Barahona
Genetics, Volume 204, Issue 1, 1 September 2016, Pages 11–19, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.191767
Published: 01 September 2016
Hubby and Lewontin on Protein Variation in Natural Populations: When Molecular Genetics Came to the Rescue of Population Genetics
Brian Charlesworth and others
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 4, 1 August 2016, Pages 1497–1503, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.185975
Published: 01 August 2016
The Hiroshima/Nagasaki Survivor Studies: Discrepancies Between Results and General Perception
Bertrand R Jordan
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 4, 1 August 2016, Pages 1505–1512, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.191759
Published: 01 August 2016
Weaving a Tapestry from Threads Spun by Geneticists: The Series Perspectives on Genetics, 1987–2008
William F Dove
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 3, 1 July 2016, Pages 1011–1022, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.191155
Published: 01 July 2016
A Brief History of Schizosaccharomyces pombe Research: A Perspective Over the Past 70 Years
Peter A Fantes and Charles S Hoffman
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 2, 1 June 2016, Pages 621–629, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.189407
Published: 01 June 2016
Biochemical Genetics and Molecular Biology: The Contributions of George Beadle and Edward Tatum
Bernard S Strauss
Genetics, Volume 203, Issue 1, 1 May 2016, Pages 13–20, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.116.188995
Published: 01 May 2016
Mutation and Human Exceptionalism: Our Future Genetic Load
Michael Lynch
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 3, 1 March 2016, Pages 869–875, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.180471
Published: 02 March 2016
The Centenary of GENETICS: Bridges to the Future
Barry Ganetzky and R Scott Hawley
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 1, 1 January 2016, Pages 15–23, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.180182
Published: 28 December 2015

Primer

Pick Your Poisson: An Educational Primer for Luria and Delbrück’s Classic Paper
Philip M Meneely
Genetics, Volume 202, Issue 2, 1 February 2016, Pages 371–375, https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.115.184564
Published: 05 February 2015
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