Genetic Correlation Analysis Suggests Association between Increased Self-Reported Sleep Duration in Adults and Schizophrenia and Type 2 Diabetes

Conclusions:Our results show that increased sample sizes will identify more common variants for self-report sleep duration; however, the heritability tagged is small when compared to other traits and diseases. These results also suggest that those who carry variants that increase risk to type 2 diabetes and schizophrenia are more likely to report longer sleep duration.Citation:Byrne EM, Gehrman PR, Trzaskowski M, Tiemeier H, Pack AI. Genetic correlation analysis suggests association between increased self-reported sleep duration in adults and schizophrenia and type 2 diabetes.SLEEP 2016;39(10):1853–1857.
Source: Sleep - Category: Sleep Medicine Source Type: research