Victor A. McKusick
Victor Almon McKusick was an American internist and medical geneticist, and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He was a proponent of the mapping of the human genome due to its use for studying congenital diseases. He is well known for his studies of the Amish. He was the original author and, until his death, remained chief editor of Mendelian Inheritance in Man (MIM) and its online counterpart Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM). He is widely known as the "father of medical genetics".
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Date of Birth
October 21st, 1921
Age
104
Birth Place
United States of America
Date of Death
July 22nd, 2008
Died Aged
86
Star Sign
Libra
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