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Title: | From Mendel to quantitative genetics in the genome era: the scientific legacy of W. G. Hill | Contributor(s): | Charlesworth, Brian (author); Goddard, Michael E (author); Meyer, Karin (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2022-07-11 | DOI: | 10.1038/s41588-022-01103-1 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/53302 | Abstract: | The quantitative geneticist W. G. ('Bill') Hill, awardee of the 2018 Darwin Medal of the Royal Society and the 2019 Mendel Medal of the Genetics Society (United Kingdom), died on 17 December 2021 at the age of 81 years. Here, we pay tribute to his multiple key scientific contributions, which span population and evolutionary genetics, animal and plant breeding and human genetics. We discuss his theoretical research on the role of linkage disequilibrium (LD) and mutational variance in the response to selection, the origin of the widely used LD metric r2 in genomic association studies, the genetic architecture of complex traits, the quantification of the variation in realized relationships given a pedigree relationship and much more. We demonstrate that basic theoretical research in quantitative and statistical genetics has led to profound insights into the genetics and evolution of complex traits and made predictions that were subsequently empirically validated, often decades later. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Grant Details: | NHMRC/1113400 NHMRC/1173790 ARC/FL180100072 |
Source of Publication: | Nature Genetics, 54(7), p. 934-939 | Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1546-1718 1061-4036 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 310207 Statistical and quantitative genetics | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 100499 Livestock raising not elsewhere classified | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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Appears in Collections: | Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit (AGBU) Journal Article |
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