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About Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM

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NLM Gateway (OMIM results are in "other collections" category)
Subject Human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere. OMIA Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals is another database which might be useful.
Sources Textual information, pictures, reference information and links to NCBI's Entrez database of MEDLINE articles and sequence information.
Dates Covered 1968 to the present.
Help Documents OMIM Query Help
OMIM and OMIA video tutorial (from MIT)
Print Counterpart (backfiles) Mendelian Inheritance in Man, numerous editions. Washington University Biology Library probably does NOT own the most current editions.
Provider NCBI National Center for Biotechnology Information
Access On the web.
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