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. 2007 Apr;80(4):588-604.
doi: 10.1086/514346. Epub 2007 Mar 8.

Mendelian Inheritance in Man and its online version, OMIM

Victor A McKusick  1
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Mendelian Inheritance in Man and its online version, OMIM

Victor A McKusick. Am J Hum Genet. 2007 Apr.
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Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Twelve print editions of MIM, the first published in 1966 and the most recent, in three volumes, published in 1998
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Foreign-language editions of MIM: (left to right) Spanish (Mexican) edition, translated by Rudolfo Guzmán Toledano, 1976; Russian edition, translated by E. K. Gentera and V. I. Ivanova, 1976; and Mandarin edition, translated by Wilson H. Y. Lo and others (two volumes), 1996.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Growth of MIM and OMIM, in terms of total number of entries.
Figure 4.
Figure 4.
Growth of information in MIM concerning mapping of genes and genetic loci to specific human chromosomes in the period up to the initiation of the Human Genome (Sequencing) Project. In 1968, when the first gene was assigned to a specific autosome (the Duffy blood group to the centromeric region of chromosome 1), MIM recorded 68 X-linked phenotypes with an asterisk, indicating confidence in X-linked inheritance.
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References

Web Resources

    1. Cystic Fibrosis Mutation Database, http://www.genet.sickkids.on.ca/cftr/app
    1. Entrez, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/
    1. GeneTests, http://www.genetests.org/
    1. HUGO, http://www.gene.ucl.ac.uk/nomenclature/
    1. Human Gene Mutation Database, http://www.hgmd.cf.ac.uk

References

    1. McKusick VA. Mendelian inheritance in man: catalogs of autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive and X-linked phenotypes (1966, 1st ed; 1969, 2nd ed; 1971, 3rd ed; 1975, 4th ed; 1978, 5th ed; 1983, 6th ed; 1986, 7th ed; 1988, 8th ed; 1990, 9th ed; 1992, 10th ed). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
    1. McKusick VA. Mendelian inheritance in man: a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders (1994, 11th ed; 1998, 12th ed). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore
    1. McKusick VA (2006) A 60-year tale of spots, maps, and genes. Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet 7:1–2710.1146/annurev.genom.7.080505.115749 - DOI - PubMed
    1. McKusick VA and contributors (1961) Medical Genetics 1958–1960: an annotated review. Mosby, St. Louis
    1. McKusick VA and contributors (1965) Medical genetics 1961–1963: an annotated review. Pergamon Press, Oxford, United Kingdom

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