Mendelian Inheritance in Man

(MIM); a standard, comprehensive, regularly updated reference source for traits in humans that have been shown to be mendelian or that are thought on reasonable grounds to be so

Description
Each entry in MIM has a six-digit catalog number. Those securely established (by molecular biology or by extensive clinical studies) are marked with an asterisk. The database was initiated in the early 1960s by Dr. Victor A. McKusick as a catalog of mendelian traits and disorders. From 1966 to 1988, twelve book editions of MIM were published, during which period the online version, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM), was created, starting from 1985 in collaboration between the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the William H. Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins. In 1995, OMIM was developed for the World Wide Web by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).