This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (49)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Wilse B. Webb, PhD; Scott S. Campbell, PhD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1983;40(10):1093-1095.

Abstract
• We recorded EEGs for 14 identical and 14 fraternal young adult twin pairs during one night of sleep in our laboratory. They were instructed to sleep as long as possible. The extended sleep of the identical and fraternal twins was correlated. The structural measures of sleep of the fraternal twins were not correlated. The onset latencies, awakening measures, stage changes, and rapid eye movement amounts were significantly correlated in the identical twins. The nature of the measures used supports an interpretation of hereditary aspects of sleep length and certain structural components of sleep.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication March 29, 1983.

Reprint requests to Department of Psychology, Room 101 SSRB, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 (Dr Webb).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES

Genetic and Immunologic Aspects of Sleep Disorders
Parish
ACCP Sleep Med Brd Rev 2009;4:271-286.
FULL TEXT  

Functional Genomics of Sleep and Circadian Rhythm: Invited Review: Genetic dissection of sleep
Tafti and Franken
J. Appl. Physiol. 2002;92:1339-1347.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

In Quest of Identifying Vulnerability Markers for Psychiatric Disorders by All-Night Polysomnography
Lauer et al.
Arch Gen Psychiatry 1995;52:145-153.
ABSTRACT