{"id":13400,"date":"2019-03-15T08:30:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T08:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=13400"},"modified":"2019-03-15T08:30:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T08:30:43","slug":"genes-may-play-a-role-in-insomnia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/sleep\/genes-may-play-a-role-in-insomnia\/","title":{"rendered":"Genes May Play a Role in Insomnia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to <em>Medical\nNews Today<\/em>, about one-third of Americans suffer from insomnia. And while\nmany people might think falling asleep is just about clearing your head,\nthere\u2019s new evidence that insomnia may have a genetic component.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The largest study of\nits kind<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a huge new study that analyzed the genes and sleep\ninformation of more than 1.3 million people, an international group of\nscientists set out to determine if there was a genetic link to insomnia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The researchers used data from the DNA testing company\n23andMe and the UK Biobank and found 956 risk genes and 202 genetic loci for\ninsomnia. Some of these genes were vital to the ability of nerve cells\nextension to communicate with other neurons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They also discovered \u201ca significant number of insomnia risk\ngenes\u201d that were activated in some cells in the brain\u2019s cortical and\nsubcortical tissues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team also found that insomnia had shared risk genes with\nanxiety and depression than with other sleep characteristics, such as being a\n\u201cmorning person\u201d or a \u201cnight owl.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a very important finding because we have always\nsearched for causes of insomnia in the brain circuits that regulate sleep,\u201d\nexplains Professor Eus Van Someren, who works as a neurophysiology professor at\nthe Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam. \u201cWe have to shift our\nattention to the circuits that regulate emotion, stress and tension. Our first\nresults in that direction are already spectacular.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because the researchers were able to determine the types of cells involved in sleep issues (striatal, claustrum and hypothalamic neurons), their findings may be able to pave the way for new treatment targets in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Other studies showing\na neurobiological component<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn\u2019t the first study showing that difficulty falling asleep may be tied to the nervous system. A 2016 study determined that people with sleep issues had abnormalities in the white matter tracts and parts of the limbic systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Medical News Today, about one-third of Americans suffer from insomnia. And while many people might think falling asleep is just about clearing your head, there\u2019s new evidence that insomnia may have a genetic component. The largest study of its kind In a huge new study that analyzed the genes and sleep information of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692],"tags":[986,987,909,693,865],"class_list":["post-13400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleep","tag-genes","tag-genetics","tag-insomnia","tag-sleep","tag-sleep-deprivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}