Template:OMIM/doc

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This is a documentation subpage for Template:OMIM (see that page for the template itself).
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page.

Notes on use

This template creates a non-abbreviated reference citation to a specific numbered page at the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man database.

{{OMIM|#####}}, where "#####" is the OMIM page number.

Results: Online 'Mendelian Inheritance in Man' (OMIM) 12345


An optional second parameter allows displaying of OMIM page name.

Hence: {{OMIM|604715|Orthostatic Intolerance}}
Gives: Online 'Mendelian Inheritance in Man' (OMIM) Orthostatic Intolerance -604715


This template is good to use for the first OMIM citation in an article (or perhaps in a section), but is generally probably too long to use repeatedly; use the {{OMIM3}} template instead for later citations. And {{OMIM2}} can be used after {{OMIM}} to shorten a long list of OMIM citations. Either can also be used in infoboxes to keep the text shorter. In infoboxes, the plainlinks variants {{OMIM4}} (variant of {{OMIM2}}) and {{OMIM5}} (variant of {{OMIM3}}), without external link icons, can alternatively be used, where the context already makes it clear that the links are external.