McKusick, pioneer in medical genetics, dies at 86

In this April 23, 2008 file photo, Victor A. McKusick, a genetics professor at Johns Hopkins University School of medicine, shows his 2008 Japan Prize for medical genetics and genomics during an award ceremony in Tokyo, Japan. McKusick, a key architect of the Human Genome Project and a winner of the National Medal of Science, has died. He was 86. Officials at Johns Hopkins University, where McKusick was a professor of genetics, said he died Tuesday, July 22, 2008, in Towson, Maryland, after complications from cancer. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)