# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/victor-a-mckusick
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:10:02.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/victor-a-mckusick"
name: "Victor A. McKusick"
slug: "victor-a-mckusick"
description: "Victor Almon McKusick was an American internist and medical geneticist, and Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. He was a proponent of the mapping of the human genome due to its use for studying congenital diseases. He is well known for his studies of the Amish. He was the original author and, until his death, remained chief editor of Mendelian Inheritance in Man (MIM) and its online counterpart Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM). He is widely known as the \"father of medical genetics\"."
tagline: "American internist and medical geneticist (1921-2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Victor_McKusick.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1921-10-21"
deathDate: "2008-07-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.57
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.35223333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Victor Almon McKusick"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_A._McKusick"
    title: "Victor A. McKusick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Victor A. McKusick"
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    title: "Victor McKusick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_McKusick"
    title: "Victor McKusick"
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    title: "വിക്ടർ അൽമോൻ മക്കുസിക്ക്"
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    title: "Victor McKusick"
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    title: "Victor A. McKusick"
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    title: "Маккьюсик, Виктор"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وکٹر اے میک کوسک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump