Mendelian Inheritance in Man: Catalogs of Autosomal Dominant, Autosomal Recessive, and X-Linked Phenotypes

doi:10.1056/NEJM199308193290822

Volume 329:585-586		August 19, 1993		Number 8

Mendelian Inheritance in Man: Catalogs of Autosomal Dominant, Autosomal Recessive, and X-Linked Phenotypes

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Tenth edition. By Victor A. McKusick. 2320 pp. in two volumes. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. $150. ISBN 0-8018-4411-8.

In 1958, just after completing a genetics fellowship, I wasmost fortunate to have the opportunity to participate in a meetingin Colorado Springs, Colorado, cochaired by Victor McKusickand Ted Puck. This meeting represented the beginning of thefield of clinical genetics as a true part of medicine. It wasthe vision of McKusick that before too long, genetics wouldbe a mainstream medical activity and would become "consumer-oriented."He was clearly on the mark and has been for all these yearsthe shepherd of the development of the field. Perhaps his mostimportant pragmatic achievement has been the . . . [Full Text of this Article]