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To sleep or not: Researchers explore complex genetic network behind sleep duration

Graph showing sleep duration (in minutes) of wild fruit flies—long sleepers, normal sleepers, and short sleepers—artificially bred across 13 generations. Susan Harbison, NHLBI Scientists have identified differences in a group of genes they say might help explain why some people need a lot more sleep — and others less — than most.  The study, conducted […]

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