Michael E. Goddard

Mike Goddard
Michael Goddard in 2015, portrait via the Royal Society
Born	Michael Edward Goddard
Fields	Genetics Animal breeding
Institutions	University of Melbourne James Cook University University of Guelph University of New England[1]
Alma mater	University of Melbourne (BVSc, PhD)
Thesis	Development of a breeding programme for guide dogs (1979)
Notable awards	FRS (2015)[2] FAAABG[1]
Website www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person3714

Michael Edward Goddard FRS^[2] is a Professorial Fellow in Animal Genetics at the University of Melbourne, Australia.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}

Education

Goddard was educated at the University of Melbourne where he was awarded Bachelor of Veterinary Science (BVSc) and PhD degrees.^[12][13]

Awards and honours

Goddard was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads:

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Michael Goddard is distinguished for his research into quantitative genetics and the genetic improvement of livestock, in particular by incorporation of molecular genetic data. He co-proposed and developed 'genomic selection' in which dense molecular markers are fitted to quantitative data by utilising linkage disequilibrium with QTL, thereby enabling more accurate selection decisions, including among animals without phenotypic records. Within a decade, it is being used world wide in animal improvement programmes and has potential in plant breeding and prediction of risk of genetic disease in humans. Goddard has made other major contributions to understanding the genetic basis of quantitative genetic variation, showing that common SNPs can collectively account for much of the heritability, and to inferences on population history.[2]

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References

1. "Michael Edward Goddard". Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics. Archived from the original on 2013-10-31.
2. "Professor Michael Goddard FRS". London: The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-05-02.
3. Michael E. Goddard's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
4. Goddard, M. E.; Whitelaw, E. (2014). "The use of epigenetic phenomena for the improvement of sheep and cattle". Frontiers in Genetics 5. doi:10.3389/fgene.2014.00247.
5. Goddard, M. E.; Hayes, B. J. (2009). "Mapping genes for complex traits in domestic animals and their use in breeding programmes". Nature Reviews Genetics 10 (6): 381–391. doi:10.1038/nrg2575.
6. Speliotes, E. K.; Willer, C. J.; Berndt, S. I.; Monda, K. L.; Thorleifsson, G; Jackson, A. U.; Lango Allen, H; Lindgren, C. M.; Luan, J; Mägi, R; Randall, J. C.; Vedantam, S; Winkler, T. W.; Qi, L; Workalemahu, T; Heid, I. M.; Steinthorsdottir, V; Stringham, H. M.; Weedon, M. N.; Wheeler, E; Wood, A. R.; Ferreira, T; Weyant, R. J.; Segrè, A. V.; Estrada, K; Liang, L; Nemesh, J; Park, J. H.; Gustafsson, S; Kilpeläinen, T. O. (2010). "Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index". Nature Genetics 42 (11): 937–48. doi:10.1038/ng.686. PMC 3014648. PMID 20935630.
7. Yang, J; Benyamin, B; McEvoy, B. P.; Gordon, S; Henders, A. K.; Nyholt, D. R.; Madden, P. A.; Heath, A. C.; Martin, N. G.; Montgomery, G. W.; Goddard, M. E.; Visscher, P. M. (2010). "Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height". Nature Genetics 42 (7): 565–9. doi:10.1038/ng.608. PMC 3232052. PMID 20562875.
8. Lango Allen, H.; Estrada, K.; Lettre, G.; Berndt, S. I.; Weedon, M. N.; Rivadeneira, F.; Willer, C. J.; Jackson, A. U.; Vedantam, S.; Raychaudhuri, S.; Ferreira, T.; Wood, A. R.; Weyant, R. J.; Segrè, A. V.; Speliotes, E. K.; Wheeler, E.; Soranzo, N.; Park, J. H.; Yang, J.; Gudbjartsson, D.; Heard-Costa, N. L.; Randall, J. C.; Qi, L.; Vernon Smith, A.; Mägi, R.; Pastinen, T.; Liang, L.; Heid, I. M.; Luan, J. A.; Thorleifsson, G. (2010). "Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height". Nature 467 (7317): 832–838. doi:10.1038/nature09410. PMC 2955183. PMID 20881960.
9. Yang, J; Lee, S. H.; Goddard, M. E.; Visscher, P. M. (2011). "GCTA: A tool for genome-wide complex trait analysis". The American Journal of Human Genetics 88 (1): 76–82. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.11.011. PMC 3014363. PMID 21167468.
10. Hayes, B. J.; Bowman, P. J.; Chamberlain, A. J.; Goddard, M. E. (2009). "Invited review: Genomic selection in dairy cattle: Progress and challenges". Journal of Dairy Science 92 (2): 433–43. doi:10.3168/jds.2008-1646. PMID 19164653.
11. Meuwissen, T. H.; Hayes, B. J.; Goddard, M. E. (2001). "Prediction of total genetic value using genome-wide dense marker maps". Genetics 157 (4): 1819–29. PMC 1461589. PMID 11290733.
12. "Professor Michael Goddard". University of Melbourne. Archived from the original on 2013-04-30.
13. Goddard, Michael Edward (1979). Development of a breeding programme for guide dogs (PhD thesis). University of Melbourne. OCLC 220267115.