Gene Variation That Lets People Get By On Less Sleep Transferred To Create Insomniac Mice, University of Utah, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), And Stanford University Study

ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2009) — A University of Utah sleep expert has joined with researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Stanford University to identify a genetic variation in humans, which the scientists also developed in mouse models, that allows a rare number of people to require less sleep than others.