Victor McKusick has died at the age of 86. He was “the father of medical genetics”. “Today we have lost a legend,” said Edward Miller, dean of the Johns

Victor McKusick, a cardiologist who helped to invent the field of medical genetics just four years after the structure of DNA was discovered, died Tuesday.

By David Brown Insights from the fully transcribed human genome -- those 3 billion letters of DNA -- will drive the medical discoveries of the 21st century

TOWSON, Md. (AP) — Dr. Victor A. McKusick, a key architect of the Human Genome Project and a winner of the National Medal of Science, has died. He was 86.

By Alex Garrel On Tuesday, Dr. Victor A. McKusick, the Johns Hopkins University physician who has brought an undeniable contribution to medical genetics,

Victor McKusick, the visionary researcher who is often called the father of medical genetics, died on Tuesday at the age of 86, from complications from

Washington (dbTechno) - Dr. Victor McKusick is known as the father of medical genetics, and was a University Professor of Medicine at the John Hopkins

By Joseph Collins Dr. Victor McKusick, internist and medical geneticist, University Professor of Medicine at the John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore,

RESEARCHER: Dr. Victor A. McKusick was a pioneer in linking diseases to specific genes and began the first database of gene functions, which now includes

Washington (ChattahBox) - Dr. Victor McKusick, a medical genetics pioneer and a University Professor of Medicine at the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore,