Abstract

Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) affects 10–20% of the population and is associated with substantial functional deficits. Here, we identify 42 loci for self-reported daytime sleepiness in GWAS of 452,071 individuals from the UK Biobank, with enrichment for genes expressed in brain tissues and in neuronal transmission pathways. We confirm the aggregate effect of a genetic risk score of 42 SNPs on daytime sleepiness in independent Scandinavian cohorts and on other sleep disorders (restless legs syndrome, insomnia) and sleep traits (duration, chronotype, accelerometer-derived sleep efficiency and daytime naps or inactivity). However, individual daytime sleepiness signals vary in their associations with objective short vs long sleep, and with markers of sleep continuity. The 42 sleepiness variants primarily cluster into two predominant composite biological subtypes - sleep propensity and sleep fragmentation. Shared genetic links are also seen with obesity, coronary heart disease, psychiatric diseases, cognitive traits and reproductive ageing.

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Genome-wide association analysis of self-reported daytime sleepiness identifies 42 loci that suggest biological subtypes
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Wang, Heming 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Lane, Jacqueline M 2 ; Jones, Samuel E 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Dashti, Hassan S 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ollila, Hanna M 4 ; Wood, Andrew R 3 ; van Hees, Vincent T 5   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Brumpton, Ben 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Winsvold, Bendik S 7   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Kantojärvi, Katri 8 ; Palviainen, Teemu 9   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Cade, Brian E 1 ; Sofer, Tamar 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Song, Yanwei 10   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Patel, Krunal 10 ; Anderson, Simon G 11   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Bechtold, David A 12   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Bowden, Jack 13 ; Emsley, Richard 12 ; Kyle, Simon D 14 ; Little, Max A 15 ; Loudon, Andrew S 12 ; Frank A J L Scheer 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Purcell, Shaun M 1 ; Richmond, Rebecca C 16   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Spiegelhalder, Kai 17 ; Tyrrell, Jessica 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Zhu, Xiaofeng 18 ; Hublin, Christer 19 ; Kaprio, Jaakko A 19   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Kristiansson, Kati 20   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Sulkava, Sonja 8 ; Paunio, Tiina 8 ; Hveem, Kristian 21 ; Nielsen, Jonas B 22 ; Willer, Cristen J 22   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; John-Anker Zwart 23 ; Strand, Linn B 24 ; Frayling, Timothy M 3 ; Ray, David 25 ; Lawlor, Deborah A 13   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Rutter, Martin K 26 ; Weedon, Michael N 3 ; Redline, Susan 27 ; Saxena, Richa 28   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA 
 Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA; Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 
 Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, United Kingdom 
 Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA; Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA; Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 
 Netherlands eScience Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands 
 K.G. Jebsen Centre for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; Department of Thoracic and Occupational Medicine, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway 
 K.G. Jebsen Centre for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 
 Genomics and Biomarkers Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Psychiatry and SleepWell Research Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland 
 Institute for Molecular Medicine FIMM, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 
10  Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Northeastern University College of Science, Boston, MA, USA 
11  Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; The George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre, Caribbean Institute for Health Research, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados 
12  Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Gastroenterology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 
13  MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 
14  Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 
15  Department of Mathematics, Aston University, Birmingham, UK; Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA 
16  MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 
17  Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Centre, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany 
18  Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA 
19  Institute for Molecular Medicine FIMM, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 
20  Genomics and Biomarkers Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland 
21  K.G. Jebsen Centre for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 
22  Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA 
23  Division of Clinical Neuroscience, Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 
24  K.G. Jebsen Centre for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public Health and Nursing, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway 
25  NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK 
26  Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Gastroenterology, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK; Manchester Diabetes Centre, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK 
27  Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA 
28  Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA; Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 
Pages
1-12
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Aug 2019
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20411723
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Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
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2272720559
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