At the end of 2019, I retired after 6 years as the founding Editor-in-Chief for Human Genome Variation (HGV). Before this, I had been Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Human Genetics, the official journal of The Japan Society of Human Genetics (JSHG) for 6 years. During this time, I found myself having to reject many submitted manuscripts. However, this was often with regret as many of those manuscripts actually contained results which were worth sharing among both researchers and clinicians. It was also clear that the rapid development of next-generation sequencers would lead to an extraordinary increase in sequence and variation data. This led me to the idea of a new open-access journal containing articles and reports to allow data sharing about variation and variability in the human genome, and the implications and future impacts for the study of human genomics. Accordingly, in 2012, with support from JSHG and Nature Publishing Group (now Springer Nature), I proposed a new open-access, online-only journal and fortunately obtained a 5-year grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in order to successfully launch HGV as the second official journal of the JSHG in 2014.
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