Figuera L E, Cantú J M
División de Genética, Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Occidente-Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
Bol Oficina Sanit Panam. 1993 Jul;115(1):12-8.
In order to determine the contribution made by Latin American geneticists to the knowledge of the human genome, all the entries in the 10th edition (1992) of the McKusick catalogue, Mendelian Inheritance in Man, were examined and the geneticists who were known to the authors or who had surnames common in Latin America were selected. Counting only the first set of authors, 228 citations of 93 geneticists were identified, 47 of which concerned mendelian characters described only in the Region. Through a review of additional literature, 10 genetic entities described by Latin Americans, but not included in the catalogue, were found. The importance of studying the genetic features specific to the Region is emphasized as it may serve as an anchor for positional or functional genetic mapping, especially of indigenous populations.
为了确定拉丁美洲遗传学家对人类基因组知识的贡献，我们查阅了麦库西克编著的《人类孟德尔遗传》第10版（1992年）中的所有条目，并挑选出作者已知或姓氏在拉丁美洲较为常见的遗传学家。仅计算第一组作者，共识别出93位遗传学家的228条引用，其中47条涉及仅在该地区描述的孟德尔性状。通过查阅其他文献，发现了10个由拉丁美洲人描述但未列入该目录的遗传实体。强调了研究该地区特定遗传特征的重要性，因为它可能作为定位或功能基因图谱的基础，特别是针对本土人群。
