Founder of medical genetics dies

Victor McKusick, who founded the field of medical genetics at Johns Hopkins University, died on Tuesday, July 22, at his home outside Baltimore. He was 86 years old. "Victor's vision is reflected in his early recognition of the inherent value to medicine of mapping the human genome," said Aravinda Chakravarti, director of the McKusick-Nathans Institute in a 2002 linkurl:statement.;http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press/2002/MAY/020509.htm "His contributions to the practice of genetics in medicin