The search for circadian clock components in humans: new perspectives for association studies
Individual circadian clocks entrain differently to environmental cycles (zeitgebers, e.g., light and darkness), earlier or later within the day, leading to different chronotypes. In human populations, the distribution of chronotypes forms a bell-shaped curve, with the extreme early and late types _...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
2008-08-01
|
| Series: | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2008000800013 |