Correlations in sleeping patterns and circadian preference between spouses

Correlations in sleeping patterns and circadian preference between spouses

Abstract Spouses may affect each other’s sleeping behaviour. In 47,420 spouse-pairs from the UK Biobank, we found a weak positive phenotypic correlation between spouses for self-reported sleep duration (r = 0.11; 95% CI = 0.10, 0.12) and a weak inverse correlation for chronotype (diurnal preference)...

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Main Authors: Rebecca C. Richmond, Laurence J. Howe, Karl Heilbron, Samuel Jones, Junxi Liu, 23andMe Research Team, Xin Wang, Michael N. Weedon, Martin K. Rutter, Deborah A. Lawlor, George Davey Smith, Céline Vetter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-11-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05521-7

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05521-7

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