Multi-ancestry genetic architecture of sleep duration and its relationship to other sleep and psychiatric phenotypes.

ABSTRACT: Differences in sleep duration, quality, and timing are associated with variation in cognition, health outcomes, and quality of life. Genetic studies may help explain the underlying mechanisms of sleep and its relationships to other conditions. Our previous work highlighted risk loci associated with short (<6hrs) and long sleep (>9hrs), using data from the UK Biobank and the Million Veteran Program. We build on this work by conducting a genome wide association study (GWAS) and multi-ancestry meta-analysis of sleep duration as a quantitative trait. We used LD score regression (LDSC) to evaluate the correlation between sleep duration and other traits, and genomic structural equation modelling (genomicSEM) to consider the relationships between traits of interest. We identify 234 independent ge

SUBMITTER: Austin-Zimmerman I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12140527 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature