ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

Preface: I (KKO) began contributing to the Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology in 2004 as editor of the former chapter on “Population Genetics”. A measure of success of that chapter, like the one on “Evidence-based Medicine”, was that these topics became ingrained in the contents of all other chapters, and a stand-alone chapter on genetics was no longer included since 2012. However, there has been such rapid recent progress in genetics research tools, analytical approaches, mechanistic understanding and clinical insights that I make no apology in assigning a large proportion of this current chapter to genetics. Not only researchers but also clinicians need to keep informed of the rapidly expanding use of genetics in both research and clinical care.

Of the other papers, I urge you to note the papers on screening for food insecurity (15.14) and on the impact of retracted publications on systematic review evidence and clinical guidelines (15.15).