《遺傳》是遺傳學學會的官方期刊。它涵蓋了遺傳學領域的廣泛主題，因此，論文必須解決期刊廣大讀者感興趣的概念或應用問題。因此，重點應該放在可以跨系統擴展的廣泛的一般教訓上。該期刊特別鼓勵在下列領域提交意見:群體遺傳學和基因組學功能基因組學、轉錄組學、代謝組學和蛋白質組學表觀遺傳學生態遺傳學進化遺傳學數量遺傳學適應基因組學作物和牲畜遺傳學/基因組學

Heredity is the official journal of the Genetics Society. It covers a broad range of topics within the field of genetics and therefore papers must address conceptual or applied issues of interest to the journal's wide readership. The focus should thus be on broad general lessons that can be extended across systems.The journal particularly encourages submissions in the following areas:population genetics/ genomicsfunctional genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics and proteomicsepigeneticsecological geneticsevolutionary geneticsquantitative geneticsadaptation genomicscrop and livestock genetics/ genomics