Sleep Disturbances Linked to Genetic Disorders.

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Genetic factors are surmised to regulate sleep as evidenced by the heritability of sleep traits, specific genetic polymorphisms of these traits, and familial sleep disorders. Sleep is also a very complex behavior that is regulated by circadian rhythm, homeostatic drive, and other processes. All these processes appear to have genetic factors; however, we still cannot elucidate sleep genes. Recent studies in humans...

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