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Age-related change in the association between a polymorphism in the PER3 gene and preferred timing of sleep and waking activities.
Journal of sleep research - 1 Mar 2007
Jones Kay H S, Ellis Jason, von Schantz Malcolm, Skene Debra J, Dijk Derk-Jan, Archer Simon N
Abstract excerpt
The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of age on the association between preferred timing of sleep and waking activities and a coding-region variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) polymorphism in the clock gene PER3. We have previously reported this polymorphism to associate with diurnal preference and delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS). Participants (n = 1590; 707 males and 883 females)...
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