ABSTRACT

OMIM is a listing of the known inherited conditions occurring in humans. Each condition has biologic and clinical descriptions in a detailed textual narrative that includes a listing of relevant citations. The OMIM text exceeds 135 megabytes (MB) in length and can be downloaded from the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s anonymous ftp site: ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov and subdirectory: /repository/omim/.