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Functional consequences of a CKIdelta mutation causing familial advanced sleep phase syndrome.
Nature - 31 Mar 2005
Xu Ying, Padiath Quasar S, Shapiro Robert E, Jones Christopher R, Wu Susan C, Saigoh Noriko, Saigoh Kazumasa, Ptácek Louis J, Fu Ying-Hui
Abstract excerpt
Familial advanced sleep phase syndrome (FASPS) is a human behavioural phenotype characterized by early sleep times and early-morning awakening. It was the first human, mendelian circadian rhythm variant to be well-characterized, and was shown to result from a mutation in a phosphorylation site within the casein kinase I (CKI)-binding domain of the human PER2 gene. To gain a deeper understanding of the mechanisms...
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