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The two studies [here and here]found significant overlap between genes implicated in insomnia and those related to psychiatric and metabolic traits. Genes for traits, including depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, coronary artery disease and type 2 diabetes were sometimes the same. The findings suggest insomnia is more strongly related to neuropsychiatric disorders than to other sleep-related traits such as whether someone is a morning person. āThat was a big surprise,ā [geneticist Richa] Saxena says. āImplying that at the genetic level itās a disorder thatās likely linked to psychiatric disease and mood regulation, and itās not necessarily just about sleep regulation.ā
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āIdentifying new variants that contribute to risk helps pinpoint new biological targets,ā [statistical geneticist Mackenzie] Lind says. This search, she adds, is āa step toward the eventual goal of using genetic information to predict risk and treatment outcomes, although weāre not at this point yet.ā
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