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Genetics Selection Evolution BioMed Central Research Open Access Reducing the bias of estimates of genotype by environment interactions in random regression sire models 1 1,2 1 Marie Lillehammer* , Jørgen Ødegård and Theo HE Meuwissen Address: 1Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, N-1432 Ås, Norway and 2NOFIMA, N-1432 Ås, Norway Email: Marie Lillehammer* - marie.lillehammer@ssb.no; Jørgen Ødegård - jorgen.odegard@umb.no; Theo HE Meuwissen - theo.meuwissen@umb.no * Corresponding author Published: 19 March 2009 Received: 10 March 2009 Accepted: 19 March 2009 Genetics Selection Evolution 2009, 41:30 doi:10.1186/1297-9686-41-30 This article is available from: /content/41/1/30 © 2009 Lillehammer et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The combination of a sire model and a random regression term describing genotype by environment interactions may lead to biased estimates of genetic variance components because of heterogeneous residual variance. In order to test different models, simulated data with genotype by environment interactions, and dairy