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10100809
TITLE
Effects of lifestyle, personality, symptoms of anxiety and depression, and genetic predisposition on subjective sleep disturbance and sleep pattern.
ABSTRACT
The effects on sleep pattern ('short-sleep' versus 'long-sleep') and subjective sleep disturbance of genotype, personality, symptoms of anxiety and depression, and lifestyle, were examined using survey data on a clinically unselected sample of adult Australian twin pairs, aged 17-88 years. When the effects of genotype, personality and symptoms were ignored, lifestyle variables appeared to account for roughly 4% of the variance in sleep disturbance, and 9% of the variance in sleep pattern. Significant genetic effects on sleep disturbance and sleep pattern were found, which were only partly explained by the effects of personality and symptoms of anxiety and depression. Much of the association between sleep disturbance and lifestyle appeared to be explained by separate effects of personality and symptoms of anxiety and depression on sleep and lifestyle ('genotype-risk-factor correlation'). There was little evidence for genetically determined differences in sensitivity to the lifestyle variables ('genotype x risk-factor interaction').
DATE PUBLISHED
1998 Dec
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
pubmed 1999/04/01
medline 1999/04/01 00:01
entrez 1999/04/01 00:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Heath AC Heath A C AC Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA.
Eaves LJ Eaves L J LJ
Kirk KM Kirk K M KM
Martin NG Martin N G NG
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 1
ISSUE: 4
TITLE: Twin research : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies
ISOABBREVIATION: Twin Res
YEAR: 1998
MONTH: Dec
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 1369-0523
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Twin Res
COUNTRY: Australia
ISSNLINKING: 1369-0523
NLMUNIQUEID: 9815819
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Twin Study
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GRANTID AGENCY COUNTRY
AG04954 NIA NIH HHS United States
GM30250 NIGMS NIH HHS United States
HL28922 NHLBI NIH HHS United States
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Anxiety physiopathology
Depression physiopathology
Diseases in Twins physiopathology
Female physiopathology
Genetic Predisposition to Disease physiopathology
Genotype physiopathology
Humans physiopathology
Life Style physiopathology
Male physiopathology
Middle Aged physiopathology
Multivariate Analysis physiopathology
Personality physiopathology
Questionnaires physiopathology
Risk Factors physiopathology
Sex Factors physiopathology
Sleep physiology
Sleep Disorders genetics
Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders genetics
Time Factors genetics
Twins, Dizygotic genetics
Twins, Monozygotic genetics
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
OTHER ID's