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Genet. Sel. Evol. 36 (2004) 363–369 363 c INRA, EDP Sciences, 2004 DOI: 10.1051/gse:2004006 Note Computing approximate standard errors for genetic parameters derived from random regression models fitted by average information REML Troy M. Fa,c ∗, Arthur R. Gb,c , Julius H.J. van der Wa,c a School of Rural Science and Agriculture, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2351, Australia b NSW Agriculture, Orange Agricultural Institute, Orange, NSW, 2800, Australia c Australian Sheep Industry CRC (Received 21 October 2003; accepted 9 January 2004) Abstract – Approximate standard errors (ASE) of variance components for random regression coefficients are calculated from the average information matrix obtained in a residual maximum likelihood procedure. Linear combinations of those coefficients define variance components for the additive genetic variance at given points of the trajectory. Therefore, ASE of these com- ponents and heritabilities derived from them can be calculated. In our example, the ASE were larger near the ends of the trajectory. random regression / heritability / approximate standard error / genetic parameter / residual maximum likelihood 1. INTRODUCTION Random regression (RR) has been widely used for genetic analysis of lon- gitudinal data from many of the major animal breeding industries world wide and has also been implemented into routine large scale animal breeding ap- plications [4]. Estimates of derived genetic parameters such as heritability at given points along the trajectory are commonly published from such studies and comment is often made about the accuracy and robustnes