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Article: Case of the zzzz's Researchers to search for single gene that causes `early-to-bed' sleep syndrome
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 11, 1999
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CopyrightCopyright 1999 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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A sleep syndrome that sends people early to bed and early to rise
doesn't necessarily make them healthy, wealthy and wise. The
disorder, traced to a single gene, can send sufferers to bed when
everybody else is still going strong, researchers at the University
of Utah have found.
Understanding what governs people's wake-sleep cycles has
important medical implications for dealing with insomnia, jet lag,
shift work and depression, the scientists report in the September
issue of the journal Nature Medicine.
Researchers studied people who have a shorter than normal wake-
sleep cycle. Regardless of work schedules or social pressures, these
folks just can't stay up much later than 8:30 ...