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Peter Visscher is a Senior Principal Research Fellow (SPRF)
at QIMR, and holds an honorary professorship with the Institute for Molecular
Bioscience at UQ. He was born in Holland from Dutch and English parents. His
children are first backcrosses. After obtaining a BSc in Animal Science he
worked for a couple of years in the Department of Agriculture in Holland before
moving to Edinburgh for a Masters and PhD in animal breeding and genetics
(supervised by Bill Hill FRS and Robin Thompson FRSE), working on the
estimation of genetic parameters in large dairy cattle pedigrees. A productive postdoc
with Mike Goddard (Melbourne) was followed by a return to Edinburgh, where he
worked with Chris Haley (Roslin Institute) on marker-assisted-selection and QTL
mapping methodology. In 1995 he moved to a faculty position at the University
of Edinburgh, working on QTL mapping methods, software tools and practical
applications. Since ~1998 his main interest and research focus has been in genetic
epidemiology, statistical genetics and human quantitative & population
genetics. He joined the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in January
2005.
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