Template:OMIM2/doc

Usage
This template creates a very concise reference citation to a specific numbered page at the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man database. For example, where "261500" is the OMIM page number,


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This template is good to use when there is a long series of OMIM citations in a row and one wishes to be as concise as possible with them. Generally, it should be immediately preceded by use of the OMIM template, or OMIM3 (or its plainlinks variant OMIM5 if OMIM was already used earlier in the article/section; without preceding OMIM2 with one or the other, it will be unclear to the reader what the citation is citing. OMIM2 is also used (and was created) for infobox medical condition. There is a plainlinks version of OMIM2, at OMIM4, that does not show the external link icon, for use infoboxes where the context already makes it clear that the links are external.