Goddard was educated at the University of Melbourne where he was awarded Bachelor of Veterinary Science (BVSc) and PhD degrees.
Awards and honours
Goddard was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) in 2011.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads:
Publications
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
