Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man OMIM: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez

Abstract

This website is based on a definitive work on genetic disorders, Victor McKusick’s Mendelian Inheritance in Man. But whereas the book is now four years old, OMIM is updated daily—as of January 2003 it included 14 120 references, gaining more than 60 a month and revising a further 500. The site’s authors have reviewed the literature to provide a series of well-referenced summaries of clinical and …