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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 the sleep problems were larger in monozygotic than in dizygotic pairs, with heritability estimates ranging from 0.21 to...
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