<br>Following on from the successful 5th Annual Meeting of the African Society of Human Genetics in Cairo, Public Health Genomics (the journal former known as Community Genetics) had offered to publish the proceeding from the meeting. We would therefore like to encourage all participants who either spoke (invited speakers as well as those who were selected on the basis of their abstracts) or presented posters to submit manuscripts for consideration for publication. Those of you who received awards are especially encouraged to submit something.<br><br>Guidelines:<br>Detailed instructions to help you prepare your manuscript are attached to this email.<br><br>Key points:<br>• The manuscript should not be more that 3000 words, with a maximum of 5 figures and/or tables (combined total) and a maximum of 50 references.<br>• Each paper needs an abstract of up to 200 words. It should contain the following information:
Background/Aims/Objective(s), Methods, Results, Conclusion(s).<br>• These headings should be used to structure the main text<br>• Papers should be written in English<br><br>You may include other authors who have contributed to the work you presented even if they did not attend the meeting.<br><br>Students should get their manuscript reviewed by their supervisor before submission.<br><br>All papers will be peer reviewed and must reach the scientific standard required by the journal. The editors decision will be final.<br><br>Please email your manuscripts electronically to Melanie Newport (m.j.newport@bsms.ac.uk) by Wednesday 30th April 2008. <br><br>If you have any questions please contact Melanie at m.j.newport@bsms.ac.uk.<br><br>Looking forward to seeing your submissions !<br><br>Debo<br><br>Dr. Adebowale Adeyemo<br>African Society of Human Genetics<br>http://www.afshg.org<br><br>National Human Genome Center<br>Howard
University<br>2216 6th Street NW<br>Washington, DC 20059<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><BR><BR>Dr. Adebowale Adeyemo