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August 31, 2007, 10.1097/PSY.0b013e31814b8de6
Sleep Quality Varies as a Function of 5-HTTLPR Genotype and Stress
Beverly H. Brummett, PhD,
Andrew D. Krystal, MD,
Allison Ashley-Koch, PhD,
Cynthia M. Kuhn, PhD,
Stephan Züchner, MD,
Ilene C. Siegler, PhD, MPH,
John C. Barefoot, PhD,
Edna L. Ballard, MSW,
Lisa P. Gwyther, MSW and
Redford B. Williams, MD
From the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (B.H.B., A.D.K., I.C.S., J.C.B., E.L.B., L.P.G., R.B.W.), Duke University Medical Center; Center for Human Genetics (A.A.-K.), Duke University Medical Center; Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology (C.M.K.), Duke University Medical Center; The Bryan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (E.L.B., L.P.G.), Durham, North Carolina; and University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (S.Z.), Miami Institute of Human Genomics, Miami, Florida.

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Figure 1. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI): Caregiver Stress x 5-HTTLPR genotypes (higher sleep quality scores = poorer sleep; values are adjusted means and error bars = standard errors).
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