The first issue- of volume seventeen of the year 2018 of the Iraqi Journal of Biotechnologies, included twelve research papers on various topics in genetic diseases and the study of genes related to them using modern molecular techniques in their diagnosis and its relationship to some factors affecting gene expression as well as topics related to molecular study of some genes related to medical pathogenic bacteria , edition also included a molecular study of certain hormones and vitamins associate genetic diseases affecting women such as poly cystic ovary and thyroid gland