Victor A. McKusick

American geneticist (1921–2008)

Victor Almon McKusick (October 21, 1921 – July 22, 2008) 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 utility for studying congenital diseases. He is well known for his studies of the Amish.

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