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Victor McKusick
Genetics · Genetics
Baltimore, United States
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Overview
Victor McKusick is a genetics specialist at Johns Hopkins University. Based in Baltimore.
For Patients
- Pioneered 2 medical techniques including OMIM database and Medical genetics as clinical discipline
- Based at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, United States
Biography
Victor McKusick was an American geneticist known as the 'father of medical genetics.' He created the OMIM database cataloguing all known genetic disorders and established medical genetics as a clinical discipline.
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The life and contributions of Victor McKusick
1957
Founded medical genetics at Hopkins
Established the first medical genetics division at Johns Hopkins
1966
Published Mendelian Inheritance in Man
Created the comprehensive catalog of human genes and genetic disorders, later becoming OMIM