Genetics of Sleep Disorders

Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 667-681

  Gehrman, Philip R ^a   Keenan, Brendan T ^a   Byrne, Enda M ^a,b   Pack, Allan I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetics; Insomnia; Narcolepsy; Restless legs syndrome; Sleep apnea; Sleep disorder

Indexed keywords

CASEIN KINASE; HLA ANTIGEN; HLA DQA2 ANTIGEN; HLA DQB1 ANTIGEN; LYSOPHOSPHATIDIC ACID RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 7; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SLEEP DISORDER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; NARCOLEPSY; NONHUMAN; PARASOMNIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION;

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; NARCOLEPSY; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; SLEEP DISORDERS, CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS;

EID: 84947487310     PISSN: 0193953X     EISSN: 15583147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psc.2015.07.004     Document Type: Review

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