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Sleep, diurnal preference, health, and psychological well-being: a prospective single-allelic-variation study.
Chronobiology international - 1 Mar 2012
Lázár Alpár S, Slak Ana, Lo June Chi-Yan, Santhi Nayantara, von Schantz Malcolm, Archer Simon N, Groeger John A, Dijk Derk-Jan
Abstract excerpt
Individual differences in sleep and diurnal preference associate with physical and mental health characteristics, but few genetic determinants of these differences have been identified. A variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) polymorphism in the PERIOD3 (PER3) gene (rs57875989) has been reported to associate with diurnal preference, i.e., preferred timing of waking and sleep. Here, the authors investigate in a...
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