Annual acknowledgement of manuscript reviewers

Contributing reviewers

The editors of BMC Genetics would like to thank all of our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 14 (2013).

Ian Adams

USA

Fernan Aguero

Argentina

Karen Aitken

Australia

Nurullah Akkoc

Turkey

Rafael G Albaladejo

Spain

Miguel Alcaide Torres

Canada

Santos Alonso

Spain

Stefan Ambs

USA

Marcel Amills

Spain

Leif Andersson

Sweden

Joaquin Arino

Spain

Melanie Bahlo

Australia

Gabriel Balmus

UK

Le Bao

USA

Marisa Bartolomei

USA

Andrea Bauer

Germany

Stephanie Baulac

France

Michael Baum

Tanzania

Dorothea Bedigian

USA

Tillmann Benfey

Canada

Gary Bennett

USA

Donagh Berry

Ireland

Soraya Bertioli

Brazil

Giorgio Binelli

Italy

Marco Bink

Netherlands

Elena Bitocchi

Italy

Zhu Bofeng

Croatia

James Bogart

Canada

Stefan Böhringer

Netherlands

Alicja Boron

Poland

Maria Bouga

Greece

Henk Bovenhuis

Netherlands

Neil Bowles

USA

Kevin Brix

Canada

Gudrun Brockmann

Germany

Heather Bruce

Canada

Anna Brüniche-Olsen

Australia

Greta Bunin

USA

John Burka

Canada

Diogo Cabral-De-Mello

Brazil

Lu Cai

USA

Mario Calus

Netherlands

Antonio Camargo

Spain

Paolo Carnier

Italy

Luigi Cattivelli

Italy

Salvatore Ceccarelli

Syria

Luigi Ceci

Italy

Giriraj Chandak

India

Peter Chandler

Australia

Hsueh-Wei Chang

Taiwan

Karen Chapman

UK

Michael Cheeseman

UK

Ji Yih Chen

Taiwan

Wei Chen

USA

Yy Chloe Cheung

Hong Kong

Ravindra Chibbar

Canada

Mingxing Chu

China

Mario Ciaffi

Italy

Marcelo Cioffi

Brazil

Guido Cipriani

Italy

Mete Civelek

USA

John Cole

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Catherine Collins

UK

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Italy

Stuart Cook

Singapore

Antonio Costa De Oliveira

Brazil

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Canada

Denny Crews

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Kehui Cui

China

Yuehua Cui

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Spain

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Yang Da

USA

Kelsey Dancause

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France

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Argentina

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France

Andrew Dewan

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Patrizio Dimitri

Italy

Ottmar Distl

Germany

Margaret Docker

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Singapore

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Fang Du

China

Zhi-Qiang Du

USA

Monchai Duangjinda

Thailand

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Susana Dunner

Spain

Scott Edwards

USA

Julia Sarah El-Sayed Moustafa

UK

Sakina Elshibli

Finland

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Italy

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Jiahan Li

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Ming Li

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