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Transcriptional Signatures of Sleep Duration Discordance in Monozygotic Twins.
Sleep - 1 Jan 2017
Watson N F, Buchwald D, Delrow J J, Altemeier W A, Vitiello M V, Pack A I, Bamshad M, Noonan C, Gharib S A
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Introduction: Habitual short sleep duration is associated with adverse metabolic, cardiovascular, and inflammatory effects. Co-twin study methodologies account for familial (eg, genetics and shared environmental) confounding, allowing assessment of subtle environmental effects, such as the effect of habitual short sleep duration on gene expression. Therefore, we investigated gene expression in monozygotic twins...
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