@article{61ea1ab33eb64aa9bc446e562f994999,
title = "A Brief History behind the journal Genetic Epidemiology and the International Genetic Epidemiology Society",
abstract = "This commentary briefly describes the process and steps that underlie the launching of the journal Genetic Epidemiology in 1984 and the International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES, to be pronounced as “I guess”) in 1992.",
author = "Rao, {Dabeeru C.}",
note = "Funding Information: I feel very fortunate and privileged to have had the opportunity to initiate launching of both the Journal and the IGES. I am very grateful to Jean MacCluer, Newton Morton, John Mulvihill, James Neel, Theodore Reich, and Roger Williams for their important roles, contributions, and strong support during the process, but most grateful to Robert Elston for his extraordinary role in spearheading the foundations of the IGES. Thanks to all the subsequent Officers of IGES and the Editors of the Journal, we have a Journal and a society dedicated to genetic epidemiology. Launching the Journal and the Society are two major initiatives, which I was directly and deeply associated with, for which I am personally grateful to Samuel Guze for inspiring me to do something special. That inspiration and challenge heavily influenced my plans and activities throughout my tenure at Washington University in St. Louis. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 Wiley Periodicals LLC.",
year = "2023",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1002/gepi.22528",
language = "English",
volume = "47",
pages = "361--364",
journal = "Genetic Epidemiology",
issn = "0741-0395",
number = "5",
}