Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Genetic studies of accelerometer-based sleep measures yield new insights into human sleep behaviour

  • Samuel E. Jones,
  • Vincent T. van Hees,
  • Diego R. Mazzotti,
  • Pedro Marques-Vidal,
  • Séverine Sabia,
  • Ashley van der Spek,
  • Hassan S. Dashti,
  • Jorgen Engmann,
  • Desana Kocevska,
  • Jessica Tyrrell,
  • Robin N. Beaumont,
  • Melvyn Hillsdon,
  • Katherine S. Ruth,
  • Marcus A. Tuke,
  • Hanieh Yaghootkar,
  • Seth A. Sharp,
  • Yingjie Ji,
  • Jamie W. Harrison,
  • Rachel M. Freathy,
  • Anna Murray,
  • Annemarie I. Luik,
  • Najaf Amin,
  • Jacqueline M. Lane,
  • Richa Saxena,
  • Martin K. Rutter,
  • Henning Tiemeier,
  • Zoltán Kutalik,
  • Meena Kumari,
  • Timothy M. Frayling,
  • Michael N. Weedon,
  • Philip R. Gehrman,
  • Andrew R. Wood

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09576-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Quality, quantity and timing of sleep are important factors for overall human health. Here, the authors perform GWAS for sleep traits estimated using wearable accelerometers and identify 47 genetic associations, including 26 novel associations for measures of sleep quality and 10 for nocturnal sleep duration.