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Last Posted: Feb 16, 2019

• Digitizing the way to better sleep health
  SJ Jaiswal et al, Lancet, February 14, 2019
• Polygenic risk score identifies associations between sleep duration and diseases determined from an electronic medical record biobank.
  Dashti Hassan S et al. Sleep 2018 Dec
• Clinical and Experimental Human Sleep-Wake Pharmacogenetics.
  Landolt Hans-Peter et al. Handbook of experimental pharmacology 2018 Nov
• Investigating causal relationships between sleep traits and risk of breast cancer: a Mendelian randomization study
  RC Richmond et al, BIORXIOV, November 2018
• Pharmacogenomics and Biomarkers of Depression.
  Jha Manish K et al. Handbook of experimental pharmacology 2018 Oct
• Correlation between HLA-DQB1*06:02 and narcolepsy with and without cataplexy: approving a safe and sensitive genetic test in four major ethnic groups. A systematic meta-analysis.
  Capittini C et al. Sleep medicine 2018 Sep 52150-157
• New supplemental awards boost NIH funding for research on Down syndrome
  NIH, October 1, 2018
• Precision medicine in circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders: current state and future perspectives.
  Keijzer Henry et al. Personalized medicine 2017 14(2) 171-182
• NIH launches initiative to accelerate genetic therapies to cure sickle cell disease
  NIH, September 13, 2018
• HLBS-PopOmics: an online knowledge base to accelerate dissemination and implementation of research advances in population genomics to reduce the burden of heart, lung, blood, and sleep disorders.
  Mensah George A et al. Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics 2018 Sep
• Just 21 People Are Known to Have This Rare Genetic Condition. Can You Help Us Find More?
  L Sanders, New York Times, August, 2018
• A Molecular Reason Why Obese People Have Trouble Losing Weight
  B Stetka, Scientific American, August 23, 2018
• One woman’s race to defuse the genetic time bomb in her genes
  A Regalado, Tech Review, July 23, 2018
• Stimulating Implementation Science in Genomics and Precision Medicine for Heart, Lung, Blood and Sleep Diseases: The Case of Familial Hypercholesterolemia
  MJ Khoury et al, Blog Post, June 5, 2018
• The Use of Precision Medicine to Manage Obstructive Sleep Apnea Treatment in Patients with Resistant Hypertension: Current Evidence and Future Directions.
  Sapiña Esther et al. Current hypertension reports 2018 Jun 20(7) 60
• NIH statement on World Asthma Day 2018
  NIH video: patients and scientists work together to advance asthma research.
• Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Rare Disease Cohorts in Heart, Lung, Blood and Sleep Disorders
  NHLBI, Apr 2018
• Rare Genetic Diseases- Ending diagnostic odysseys for patients with rare diseases
  NHGRI, Apr 2018
• Sleep disorders and Parkinson disease; lessons from genetics.
  Gan-Or Ziv et al. Sleep medicine reviews 2018 Jan
• Genetic Ancestry for Sleep Research: Leveraging Health Inequalities to Identify Causal Genetic Variants.
  Prasad Bharati et al. Chest 2018 Mar