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Genetic aspects of normal and disturbed sleep.
Sleep medicine - 1 Sept 2009
Tafti Mehdi
Abstract excerpt
Sleep disorders commonly involve genetic susceptibility, environmental effects, and interactions between these factors. The heritability of sleep patterns has been shown in studies of monozygotic twins, and sleep electroencephalogram patterns offer a unique genetic fingerprint which may assist in the identification of genes involved in the regulation of sleep. Genetic factors are also thought to play a role in...
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