TY - JOUR
T1 - Victor Almon McKusick
T2 - In the footsteps of Mendel and Osler
AU - Francomano, Clair A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Figure 8 was provided by the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Nursing and Public Health, from the Victor Almon McKusick Collection. Joanna Amberger provided Figures 4, 9 and 11 and obtained Figure 8 from the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives.
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PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - Victor Almon McKusick (VAM) is widely recognized as the father of the field of medical genetics. He established one of the first medical genetics clinics in the United States at Johns Hopkins in 1957 and developed a robust training program with the tripartite mission of education, research, and clinical care. Thousands of clinicians and scientists were educated over the years through the Short Course in Medical and Molecular Genetics, which VAM founded with Dr. Thomas Roderick in 1960. His Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM), a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders, serves as the authoritative reference for geneticists around the globe. Throughout his career he was an advocate for mapping the human genome. He collaborated with Dr. Frank Ruddle in founding the International Human Gene Mapping Workshops in the early 70's and was an avid proponent of the Human Genome Project. He was the founding President of the Human Genome Organization and a founding editor of the journal Genomics. His prodigious contributions to the field of medical genetics were recognized by multiple honors, culminating with the Japan Prize in 2008.
AB - Victor Almon McKusick (VAM) is widely recognized as the father of the field of medical genetics. He established one of the first medical genetics clinics in the United States at Johns Hopkins in 1957 and developed a robust training program with the tripartite mission of education, research, and clinical care. Thousands of clinicians and scientists were educated over the years through the Short Course in Medical and Molecular Genetics, which VAM founded with Dr. Thomas Roderick in 1960. His Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM), a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders, serves as the authoritative reference for geneticists around the globe. Throughout his career he was an advocate for mapping the human genome. He collaborated with Dr. Frank Ruddle in founding the International Human Gene Mapping Workshops in the early 70's and was an avid proponent of the Human Genome Project. He was the founding President of the Human Genome Organization and a founding editor of the journal Genomics. His prodigious contributions to the field of medical genetics were recognized by multiple honors, culminating with the Japan Prize in 2008.
KW - Victor A. McKusick
KW - biography
KW - medical genetics history
KW - mendelian genetics
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U2 - 10.1002/ajmg.a.62451
DO - 10.1002/ajmg.a.62451
M3 - Article
C2 - 34463023
AN - SCOPUS:85113880840
SN - 1552-4825
VL - 185
SP - 3193
EP - 3201
JO - American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A
JF - American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A
IS - 11
ER -