A pilot prospective study of sleep patterns and DNA methylation-characterized epigenetic aging in young adults

A pilot prospective study of sleep patterns and DNA methylation-characterized epigenetic aging in young adults

Abstract Objective Molecular markers in DNA methylation at a subset of CpG sites are affected by the environment and contribute to biological (epigenetic) age. We hypothesized that shorter sleep duration and possibly irregular sleep would be associated with accelerated epigenetic aging. We examined...

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Main Authors: Mary A. Carskadon, Kenneth R. Chappell, David H. Barker, Anne C. Hart, Kayla Dwyer, Caroline Gredvig-Ardito, Caitlyn Starr, John E. McGeary
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-09-01
Series:BMC Research Notes
Subjects:
Sleep regularity
Sleep duration
Epigenetic aging
Young adult
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13104-019-4633-1

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