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Genes for normal sleep and sleep disorders.
Annals of medicine - 1 Jan 2005
Tafti Mehdi, Maret Stéphanie, Dauvilliers Yves
Abstract excerpt
Sleep and wakefulness are complex behaviors that are influenced by many genetic and environmental factors, which are beginning to be discovered. The contribution of genetic components to sleep disorders is also increasingly recognized as important. Point mutations in the prion protein, period 2, and the prepro-hypocretin/orexin gene have been found as the cause of a few sleep disorders but the possibility that...
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