Sleeping is also due to genes

Experts from the University of Edinburgh of England and University of Ludwig Maximilians of Germany say that sleeping more or less is partly due to their genes.

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Scientists have studied more than 10,000 people across Europe, found that those carrying ABCC9 genes had a 30-minute need to sleep more than those who did not carry this gene and one-fifth of those in Europe had the gene. , information on the BBC said.

Their findings may also explain each person's sleeping habits. Everyone's sleeping needs vary considerably. Particularly, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher only slept 4 hours a night while Albert Einstein needed 11 hours.

Sleeping with an important cause is due to genes.

10,000 people from the islands of Orkney, Croatia, the Netherlands, Italy, Estonia, and Germany participated in this study. Everyone must say how often they sleep during non-working days and provide blood samples for DNA testing. The researchers compared the data with genetic analysis, and found that people with the average ABCC9 gene needed more than eight hours of sleep.

Then they looked at how this gene works in fruit flies, flies also have this gene, and found that ABCC9-free fruit flies slept three hours less than normal flies.

This gene is also involved in sensing the level of energy recovery in the body, which explains why many people who only sleep a few hours a night feel enough.

They say this will open a new path to sleep research and hopefully future studies will reveal exactly how these gene variants regulate sleep time.

Dr Jim Wilson, of the University of Edinburgh's Center for Population and Health Sciences, said the sleep time of a person takes one third of their lifetime.

The tendency to sleep is more or less often due to the family, although the sleeping needs of people are affected by age, region, season, or circadian rhythm. Deep understanding of the problem of sleep is very important in shedding light on the effects of sleep on health.

Sleep expert Neil Stanley says about 1 in 12 pairs of genes are linked to sleep. Knowing these genes will be very interesting. But if we don't pay attention to the gene, it doesn't matter because no one really cares about sleeping more or more for 30 minutes.