The prediction of producing desirable traits in offspring such as increased growth rate‎,‎ or superior meat‎,‎ milk and wool production is a vital economic tool to the animal scientist‎.‎ Summarising the latest developments in genomics relating to animal breeding values and design of breeding programmes‎,‎ this new edition includes models of survival analysis‎,‎ social interaction and sire and dam models‎,‎ as well as advancements in the use of SNPs in the computation of genomic breeding values‎.‎