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Victor A. McKusick

Victor A. McKusick

American geneticist
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... Wikipedia
Born: October 21, 1921, Parkman, ME
Died: July 22, 2008 (age 86 years), Towson, MD
Books: Mendelian Inheritance in Man: A Catalog of Human Genes and Genetic Disorders, Heritable disorders of connective tissue, Mendelian Inheritance in Man: Catalogs of Autosomal Dominant, Autosomal Recessive, and X-linked Phenotypes, and more
Awards: National Medal of Science for Biological Sciences, Canada Gairdner International Award, and Lasker–Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science
Education: Johns Hopkins University, Tufts University, and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Siblings: Vincent L. McKusick