Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

GWAS of 89,283 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with self-reporting of being a morning person

  • Youna Hu,
  • Alena Shmygelska,
  • David Tran,
  • Nicholas Eriksson,
  • Joyce Y. Tung,
  • David A. Hinds

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10448
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Circadian rhythms and related behaviours vary across individuals. Here, a large genome-wide association study reveals common single nucleotide variants influencing whether an individual reports as being a ‘morning person’ by identifying 15 significant loci, including 7 near known circadian genes.