BBC News - Liking a lie-in in people's genes, researchers say

The study involved more than 10,000 people in a number of European countries

People who like a lie-in may now have an excuse - it is at least partly down to their genes, according to experts.

Experts, who studied more than 10,000 people across Europe, found those with the gene ABCC9 need around 30 minutes more sleep per night than those without the gene.

The gene is carried by one in five Europeans, they say in their study, published in Molecular Psychiatry.

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People's sleep needs can differ significantly.

At the extreme, Margaret Thatcher managed on four hours of sleep a night while Albert Einstein needed 11.

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He added: "It's interesting to know about these genes, but in a way our genes are an irrelevance unless you were actually to obey them - but none of us do that."

Full article at bbc.co.uk

Actually, I do, and little Dude does. He has always had that luxury, I have for several years, and I firmly believe that a great many health problems, mental, physical, and psychological, are related to disruption of individual sleep patterns (a thing we're capable of addressing in a technological age).

 

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