Fairwell to Father of Medical Genetics
Victor McKusick - a remarkable medical genetics pioneer on human diseases, died at home, of complications due to cancer.
He was a cardiologist back in the year 1948, and some of colleagues thought it was a career suicidal when he had a career switch as a medical geneticist - focusing on a relatively rare inherited disorder known as Marfan syndrome.
For more information about Victor McKusick, read the following posts:
- The Scientist: Victor McKusick dies
- Wall Street Journal: Health Blog Orbit: Victor McKusick, Father of Medical Genetics
- John Hopkins Medicine: VICTOR A. McKUSICK, M.D., “FATHER OF MEDICAL GENETICS,” 1921-2008
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