Response to Dr. Zimmern

In his letter, Dr Zimmern seeks to dispel the notion that community genetics is unique and different from public health genomics, and he argues instead that both fields are “in essence one single discipline”. Let me, first of all, clarify that a comparison of both fields was not the primary aim of my commentary. My commentary is first of all based on a detailed study of the contents of the former journal Community Genetics. The aim of this study...