The official repository for the Genetics in Medicine Technical Editing Manual.
This manual provides guidance for technical editors supporting Genetics in Medicine publications.
The aim is to support consistent, standards-driven editing practices across scientific publications reporting human genetic and genomic data.
- The
mainbranch contains the most up-to-date version of the Technical Editing Manual. - The
developbranch is used for ongoing edits and updates before they are merged intomain. - Versioned branches contain historical releases.
You can download the latest version of the manual here:
📄 GIM_Technical_Editing_Manual_v1.0.0.pdf
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If you use or adapt this manual in teaching, research, or other works, please cite:
Freeman, P. & Lansdon, L. (2025). Genetics in Medicine Technical Editing Manual. Genetics in Medicine. American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics. Available at: https://github.com/openvar/GIM_Technical_Editing
ACMG Journals Technical Reviewer Guidelines © 2025 by Peter Freeman & Lisa Lansdon
is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
See the full LICENSE.txt file in this repository.
This manual was developed by the Genetics in Medicine Technical Editors Team to support consistent, standards-driven editing practices across ACMG publications.