Genetic and environmental factors determine a healthy individual's required amount of sleep
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Genetic and environmental factors determine a healthy individual's required amount of sleep.
Evidence for · 3
Heritability of Sleep EEG Topography in Adolescence: Results from a Longitudinal Twin Study
2018 · cited by 32
This longitudinal twin study demonstrates that both genetic and environmental factors significantly account for the variance in sleep EEG topography.
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Heritability of sleep architecture based on home polysomnography.
2025 · cited by 2
Polysomnography measures in a large cohort show significant narrow-sense heritability for total sleep time and specific sleep architecture stages.
Genetic risk scores, perceived neighborhood disorder, and sleep duration
2026 · cited by 2
Combining genomic data with actigraphy confirms that genetic risk scores and environmental factors such as neighborhood disorder independently affect sleep duration.