What's in a name? Issues to consider when naming Mendelian disorders

Collaborators, Affiliations

OMIM curators:
Joanna Amberger, Cassandra Arnold, Carol Bocchini, Marla J F O'Neill, Anne Stumpf

¹ Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, University of Florida College of Medicine and College of Public Health and Health Professions, Gainesville, FL, USA.
² Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. ahamosh@jhmi.edu.

Sonja A Rasmussen et al. Genet Med. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct;22(10):1573-1575.

doi: 10.1038/s41436-020-0851-0. Epub 2020 Jun 18.

OMIM curators:
Joanna Amberger, Cassandra Arnold, Carol Bocchini, Marla J F O'Neill, Anne Stumpf

¹ Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, University of Florida College of Medicine and College of Public Health and Health Professions, Gainesville, FL, USA.
² Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. ahamosh@jhmi.edu.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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