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Welcome to OMIM(TM), Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. This database is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A. McKusick and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for the World Wide Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information. The database contains textual information, pictures, and reference information. It also contains copious links to NCBI's Entrez database of MEDLINE articles and sequence information.

The OMIM Morbid Map, a catalog of genetic diseases and their cytogenetic map locations arranged alphabetically by disease, is now available.

Browsing OMIM

• Search the OMIM Database
• Search the OMIM Gene Map
• Search the OMIM Morbid Map
• The OMIM numbering system
• View the OMIM Update Log
• OMIM Statistics
• Citing OMIM in the literature
• How to create WWW links to OMIM
• The OMIM Gene List

OMIM Allied Resources

• Entrez: the NCBI MEDLINE and GenBank retrieval system
• Human Gene Nomenclature Home Page
• The Davis Human/Mouse Homology Map
• Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA)
• Genetic Alliance
• The Cardiff Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD)
• The Jackson Laboratory: Courses, mouse resources, mouse databases
• FlyBase: A Database of the Drosophila Genome
• FlyBase re-design survey
• RetNet: Genes causing Retinal Diseases
• MitoMap: the Emory University mitochondrial genome database
• HUM-MOLGEN: Courses, resources, databases, etc.
• There is also an American mirror site.
• Locus-specific mutation databases

Available for FTP

• The complete text of OMIM, compressed (about 23 megabytes)
• The OMIM Gene Map (about 625 kilobytes)
• The OMIM Gene Map key (about 6 kilobytes)
• The OMIM Morbid Map (about 115 kilobytes)

Note: OMIM is intended for use primarily by physicians and other professionals concerned with genetic disorders, by genetics researchers, and by advanced students in science and medicine.