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- Associated with Dr. Victor A. McKusick who is well-known as the father of medical genetics
- Offers comprehensive and authoritative reviews in medical genetics
- Has potential use as a text at several levels, and appeals to all medical researchers and medical students
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This book is being planned as a tribute to Dr. Victor A. McKusick (1921-2008), who is well known as the “father of medical genetics”. He was long associated with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, first as a student in the 1940s, and later as a faculty member, becoming the Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. He was a co-founder of GENOMICS and founder and lifelong editor of Mendelian Inheritance in Man, a massive compendium of human syndromes and genetic variants. Dr. McKusick made distinguished contributions to all branches of medical genetics. He was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and many other academies in the world. He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 2002. He received many other honors including several honorary doctorates.
The proposed book will reflect all the fields touched upon by Dr. McKusick’s contributions. It will be a valuable source of the latest progress in medical genetics. The contributors are internationally distinguished in their chosen specialties. Besides professional distinction, they are being selected because of their past association with Dr. McKusick, as former students or colleagues who extended his research in some fashion.
The proposed book will reflect all the fields touched upon by Dr. McKusick’s contributions. It will be a valuable source of the latest progress in medical genetics. The contributors are internationally distinguished in their chosen specialties. Besides professional distinction, they are being selected because of their past association with Dr. McKusick, as former students or colleagues who extended his research in some fashion.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Victor McKusick and the History of Medical Genetics
Editors: Krishna R. Dronamraju, Clair A. Francomano
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1677-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-1676-0Published: 12 June 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8770-9Published: 17 July 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-1677-7Published: 08 June 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 234
Topics: Human Genetics, Molecular Medicine, History of Medicine, Biomedicine general