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Gene-by-environment interactions of the CLOCK, PEMT, and GHRELIN loci with average sleep duration in relation to obesity traits using a cohort of 643 New Zealand European children.
Sleep medicine - 1 Sept 2017
Krishnan Mohanraj, Shelling Andrew N, Wall Clare R, Mitchell Edwin A, Murphy Rinki, McCowan Lesley M E, Thompson John M D
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Modern technology may have desensitised the 'biological clock' to environmental cues, disrupting the appropriate co-ordination of metabolic processes. Susceptibility to misalignment of circadian rhythms may be partly genetically influenced and effects on sleep quality and duration could predispose to poorer health outcomes. Shorter sleep duration is associated with obesity traits, which are brought...
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