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A comment on How the Body’s Trillions of Clocks Keep Time.

Re:How the Body’s Trillions of Clocks Keep Time by civilian on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @06:23PM (#10223528)
Huh. I wonder if mutations in these genes are responsible for DSPD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder and other "night owl" vs "morning lark" phenotypes.
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Re:How the Body’s Trillions of Clocks Keep Time by hrc2 on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @04:11AM (#10225297)
The Genetic Basis of Sleep and Sleep Disorders is a collection of papers on the subject, which has a chapter specifically on DSPD. Short story is, there are definitely genetic mutations which influence DSPD. In fact, DSPD seems to be influenced by a larger number of genes than it's cousin disorder, Advanced Sleep Phase Disorder.

I have DSPD, so I've been going to my local university library to study from this book.

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