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Genomics and Clinical Medicine
(Oxford Monographs on Medical Genetics. 53.) Edited by Dhavendra Kumar and Sir David Weatherall. 651 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 2008. $175. ISBN 978-0-19-518813-4.

Translational Research in Genetics and Genomics
By Moyra Smith. 220 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 2008. $79.50. ISBN 978-0-19-531376-5.

The death in July 2008 of Victor A. McKusick marked the end of an era. McKusick, widely considered to be the founding father of medical genetics, gave both a name and an important identity to a new scientific discipline — genomics — when he and Frank Ruddle launched a new journal by that name 3 years before the 1990 launch of the Human Genome Project. When McKusick asked me to succeed him as the editor-in-chief of Genomics in 2003, the year in which the "finished" human genome sequence was published, I went back to his 1987 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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