Twins+and+Sleepiness...+a+link?

Sept. 7, 2006**
 * Twins and Sleepness... a link?

Have you ever wondered why you were just so sleepy? You can’t stay awake for the simplest things and you feel sluggish and tired most of the time. Well Scientists have found that unexplained disabling fatigue in childhood is mainly due to genetic inheritance, a study of twins has revealed. Chronic fatigue in young people can be disabling and is the main illness-related reason for long absences from school. A genetic study of twins by the researchers in Cardiff University’s School of Medicine found that although the disabling fatigue and depression occurs everyday in America but have you ever thought that you may be sleepy because it’s in your genes. The scientists at the Cardiff University’s School of Medicine used the parents of 1,468 twins and 930 older twin pairs as a part of the study. An analysis was taking for disabling fatigue of more that one week and more that one month. Dr. Fowler of the Department of the Psychological Medicine said: “Our research found that the majority of genetic and environmental differences are specific to disabling fatigue and considered as valid entities in their own right, and not as variants of depression.” So why study twins? The twin research at Cardiff University is very important for research into the underlying causes of behaviour. This is because of the special features that twins posses. Identical twins come from the same egg and share all of their genes in common. I. Thomas March 19, 201