We sincerely welcome Dr. Xuehuo Zeng from Case Western Reserve University, USA, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Dr. Zeng has extensive experience in DNA damage response, molecular genetics, autophagy, cancer, etc. We are grateful to Dr. Zeng for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Assistant Professor Kakoli Das from Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Dr. Das has extensive experience in molecular genetics, genetic heterogeneity, mutant, genotype, genetic diseases, etc. We are grateful to Dr. Das for her participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Professor Thomas Liehr from University Clinic Jena, Institute of Human Genetics, Germany to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Professor Liehr has extensive experience in clinical genetics, (molecular) cytogenetics, interphase architecture, ZOO-FISH, marker and derivative chromosomes, etc. We are grateful to Professor Liehr for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Professor Khue Vu Nguyen from University of California, United States, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Professor Nguyen has extensive experience in molecular biology, genetic diseases, enzymology, biosensors, biopolymers, etc. We are grateful to Professor Nguyen for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Professor Joris A. Veltman from Newcastle University, United Kingdom, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Professor Joris A. Veltman has extensive experience in genomics, human genetics and translational genomics. We are grateful to Professor Veltman for his participation and support.

We sincerely welcome Professor Marcel Mannens from the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Professor Marcel Mannens has extensive experience in genome diagnostics, cardiogenetics and epigenetics of disease. We are grateful to Professor Mannens for his participation and support.

We welcome Professor Andrés Moya from University of Valencia, Spain, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Professor Andrés Moya is the Professor of Genetics from University of Valencia and FISABIO Chair. He has extensive experience in evolutionary genomics of bacterial endosymbionts, genomics of human pathogens and microbiome in eukaryotes. We are grateful to Professor Moya for his participation and support.

We welcome Professor Sonia M. Suter to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Professor Suter is a law professor at The George Washington University Law School, USA, where she works on legal issues in medicine and genetics as well as bioethics. She has taught Genetics and the Law, and Bioethics and the Law at the University of Michigan Law School. We are grateful to Professor Suter for her participation and support.

We welcome Professor Ruud ter Meulen from the University of Bristol, UK, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Professor ter Meulen is particularly interested in justice in health care, the ethics of research, care of older people, and evidence-based medicine. He has published extensively in the field of bioethics, and directed several international research projects, including large-scale projects funded by the European Commission. He was also Professor for Philosophy and Ethics (1992-2005) and Director of the Institute for Bioethics (1995-2005) at the University of Maastricht. We are grateful to Professor ter Meulen for his participation and support.

We welcome Professor Miodrag Stojkovic from the University of Kragujevac, Serbia, to join the Editorial Board of OBM Genetics. Professor Stojkovic is a pioneer in human nuclear transfer (NT), derivation, growth, and differentiation of pluripotent stem cells. He is author and co-author of more than 150 scientific publications. His team is improving the conditions for the efficient differentiation of pluripotent and mesenchymal stem cells, and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. We are grateful to Professor Stojkovic for his participation and support.