Journal of Sleep Disorders: Treatment and CareISSN: 2325-9639

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Yasuo Kagawa Author

kagawa@eiyo.ac.jp

Subjects of specialization
Molecular Biology, Sleep Disorders

Affiliation
Department of Medical Chemistry, Kagawa Nutrition University, Japan

Biography

Yasuo Kagawa was born in 1932. He graduated from the Medical School at the University of Tokyo in 1957, and after completing an internship at St. Luke’s Hospital, he received his PhD from the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo in 1962. He continued his bioenergetics research as a Fulbright scholar at the Public Health Research Institute of New York in 1963, as an assistant at the University of Tokyo in 1965, and as a visiting professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Cornell University in 1970, and, since 1972, as a professor at Jichi Medical School (JMS).

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Association between Sleep Duration and Personality-Gene Variants: Sleep Duration is Longer in S/S Homozygotes of Serotonin Transporter than in L Allele Genotypes

Author(s):

Akiko Koga, Akiko Fukushima, Keiko Sakuma and Yasuo Kagawa

Heavy Issue: Clarifying AHI Elevation after Contemporary Airway Surgery for OSA – The MACHO Graph

Objective: Personality genes and lifestyle and depression scores of young women were analyzed to reevaluate conflicting findings regarding the relationship between worry and sleep schedule (sleep duration, bedtime etc.).
Methods: Genes encoding serotonin transporter (5-HTT; S/S, S/L, L/L, and S/XL genotypes) and dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4; 2/4, 4/4, and other genotypes) and three clock genes were genotyped for 42 healthy female Japa... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2325-9639.1000156

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