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Sleep and Dream Characteristics in Twins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

L. Gedda  and
G. Brenci
L. Gedda*
Affiliation:
The Gregor Mendel Institute of Medical Genetics, and Twin Research, Rome
G. Brenci
Affiliation:
The Gregor Mendel Institute of Medical Genetics, and Twin Research, Rome
*
The Mendel Institute, Piazza Galeno 5, 00161, Rome, Italy

Abstract

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A study of sleep and dream characteristics has been carried out by questionnaire on a sample of 77 MZ and 76 DZ same-sex twin pairs of two age groups, 6–8 and 16–18 years. Genetic effects could not be detected in the younger age group and appeared to be rather limited in the older one, possibly as a result of the limited variability of the considered variables and of the levelling influence of the common environment.

Keywords

Sleep durationDream contentsTwins
Type
Brief-Report
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , July 1979 , pp. 237 - 239
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1979

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