Parsing Race by Genetic Ancestry

Affiliations

¹ Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, Unit for Experimental Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.

Editorial

Namni Goel. Sleep. 2015.

. 2015 Aug 1;38(8):1151-2.

doi: 10.5665/sleep.4876.

¹ Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, Unit for Experimental Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.

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Comment on

African Genetic Ancestry is Associated with Sleep Depth in Older African Americans.
Halder I, Matthews KA, Buysse DJ, Strollo PJ, Causer V, Reis SE, Hall MH. Halder I, et al. Sleep. 2015 Aug 1;38(8):1185-93. doi: 10.5665/sleep.4888. Sleep. 2015. PMID: 25845688 Free PMC article.

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