Media Advisory: Online Mendelian Inheritance In Man (OMIM) Hosts Symposium Celebrating 50 Years

Johns Hopkins' Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) is celebrating its 50th anniversary on May 4, 2017.

OMIM is a comprehensive database of human genes and genetic disorders authored and updated daily by the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine. In the early 1960s, Dr. Victor A. McKusick pioneered this catalog entitled Mendelian Inheritance in Man (MIM) allowing physicians and medical professionals around the world to diagnose genetic conditions before genetic testing became readily available. OMIM, the online version, was launched in 1985 and became readily available on the internet in 1987. Fifty years later, OMIM is still a fundamental source of information in the scientific community.

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