“…LatAm has contributed with world-renowned medical geneticists throughout time. These include the Brazilians Antonio Richieri-Costa and Maria Leine Guion-Almeida, who described new syndromes and delineated many others ( Richieri-Costa and Guion-Almeida, 1992 ; Guion-Almeida et al , 2006 ; Gil‐da‐Silva‐Lopes, 2019 ); the Argentinian Eduardo E. Castilla, who started the Latin American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (ECLAMC), a pioneering, observational, prospective study on congenital malformations across the continent ( Cavalcanti, 2018 ); the Mexican José María Cantú, who delineated several syndromes associated with camptodactyly and the syndrome with his name ( Penchaszadeh et al, 2014 ); and Luis Morquio, who delineated Mucopolysaccharidosis Type IVa for first time almost a hundred years ago ( Baujat and Valayannopoulos, 2014 ). More recently, the contribution of thousands of Venezuelans allowed mapping and subsequent discovery of the HTT gene, responsible of Huntington’s disease, where the contribution of Venezuelan geneticist Ernesto Bonilla was crucial ( Gusella et al, 1983 ; The Huntington’s Disease Collaborative Research Group, 1993 ).…”