Victor A. McKusick, 86; Johns Hopkins physician pioneered genetics research
Thursday, July 24, 2008 - 02:14
in Health & Medicine
The doctor linked diseases to specific genes, established one of the nation's first departments of medical genetics and was one of the first to propose sequencing the human genome. He was 86. Dr. Victor A. McKusick, the Johns Hopkins University physician who is widely regarded as the father of medical genetics, died Tuesday at his home in Baltimore. He was 86 and died of complications from cancer.
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