Insomnia in Vietnam era veteran twins: influence of genes and combat experience.

doi:10.1093/sleep/17.5.456

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Insomnia in Vietnam era veteran twins: influence of genes and combat experience.

Sleep - 1 Aug 1994

McCarren M, Goldberg J, Ramakrishnan V, Fabsitz R

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Genetic and environmental influences on insomnia were studied in 2,825 pairs of Vietnam era veteran male twins. The self-reported sleep problems studied included trouble falling asleep, trouble staying asleep, waking often, waking tired and a composite sleep scale. Twin correlations for each of t...

Topics

Adult
Arousal
Combat Disorders
Diseases in Twins
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Phenotype
Risk Factors
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders
Twins, Dizygotic
Twins, Monozygotic
Veterans
Vietnam
Wakefulness

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