Twin‐based heritability of actimetry traits

Gehrman, Philip; Ghorai, Arpita; Goodman, Matthew; McCluskey, Richard; Barilla, Holly; Almasy, Laura; Roenneberg, Till; Bućan, Maja

doi:10.1111/gbb.12569

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“…An individual’s phase of entrainment under a specific zeitgeber signal could well be thought of as a stable trait. However, since the zeitgeber signal people are exposed to can greatly vary in strength and timing, chronotype in the real world may rather represent a state than a trait—making genetic studies based on real-world data particularly difficult but highlighting the breadth of possible states of the circadian system [57].…”

Section: Chronotypementioning

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Chronotype and Social Jetlag: A (Self-) Critical Review

Roenneberg¹,

Pilz

Zerbini³

et al. 2019

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The Munich ChronoType Questionnaire (MCTQ) has now been available for more than 15 years and its original publication has been cited 1240 times (Google Scholar, May 2019). Additionally, its online version, which was available until July 2017, produced almost 300,000 entries from all over the world (MCTQ database). The MCTQ has gone through several versions, has been translated into 13 languages, and has been validated against other more objective measures of daily timing in several independent studies. Besides being used as a method to correlate circadian features of human biology with other factors—ranging from health issues to geographical factors—the MCTQ gave rise to the quantification of old wisdoms, like “teenagers are late”, and has produced new concepts, like social jetlag. Some like the MCTQ’s simplicity and some view it critically. Therefore, it is time to present a self-critical view on the MCTQ, to address some misunderstandings, and give some definitions of the MCTQ-derived chronotype and the concept of social jetlag.

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Section: Chronotypementioning

confidence: 99%

Chronotype and Social Jetlag: A (Self-) Critical Review

Roenneberg¹,

Pilz

Zerbini³

et al. 2019

Biology

446

390

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“…López-Mínguez et al (2017), using a composite measure (considering wrist temperature, activity and position), found a heritability of 65% and 61% for duration of night-time and diurnal sleep respectively. More recently, another study using actigraphy reported 49% heritability for total sleep and 44% for the mean duration of sleep episodes (Gehrman et al, 2019).…”

Section: J O U R N a L P R E -P R O O Fmentioning

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Twin studies of subjective sleep quality and sleep duration, and their behavioral correlates: Systematic review and meta-analysis of heritability estimates

Madrid‐Valero

Rubio‐Aparicio

Gregory

et al. 2020

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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“…An individual's phase of entrainment under a specific zeitgeber signal could well be imagined as a stable trait. However, since the zeitgeber signal people are exposed to can greatly vary in strength and timing, chronotype in the real world may rather represent a state than a trait -making genetic studies based on real-world data particularly difficult but highlighting the breadth of possible states of the circadian system [51].…”

Section: The Stability Of Chronotype -State or Trait?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Chronotype and Social Jetlag - a (self-)critical review

Roenneberg¹,

Pilz²,

Zerbini³

et al. 2019

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The Munich ChronoType Questionnaire (MCTQ) has now been available for more than 15 years; its original publication has been cited 1,240 times (Google Scholar, May 2019); its online version, which was available until July 2017, has produced almost 300,000 entries from all over the world (MCTQ database). The MCTQ has gone through several versions, has been translated into 13 languages and has been validated against other more objective measures of daily timing in several independent studies. Besides being used as a method to correlate circadian features of human biology with other factors – ranging from health issues to geographical factors – the MCTQ gave rise to quantifying old wisdoms, like “teenagers are late” and has produced new concepts, like social jetlag. Some like the MCTQ’s simplicity and some view it critically; it is time to have a self-critical view on the MCTQ, to address some misunderstandings and give some definitions about MCTQ-derived chronotype and the concept of social jetlag.

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Twin‐based heritability of actimetry traits

Cited by 15 publications

References 35 publications

Chronotype and Social Jetlag: A (Self-) Critical Review

Chronotype and Social Jetlag: A (Self-) Critical Review

Twin studies of subjective sleep quality and sleep duration, and their behavioral correlates: Systematic review and meta-analysis of heritability estimates

Chronotype and Social Jetlag - a (self-)critical review

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