Sleep Med Psychophysiol.  2011 Jun;18(1):35-39.

Association Study between Per3 Gene Polymorphism and Diurnal Preference

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Psychiatry, Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea.
  • 2Department of Psychiatry, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. leehjeong@korea.ac.kr
  • 3Department of Psychiatry, Inje University College of Medicine, Goyang, Korea.

Abstract


OBJECTIVE
Diurnal preference is an attribute reflecting whether people are alert and preferring to be active either early or late in the day. It also referred to as chronotype or morningness-eveningness trait. The PER3 genes have been known to influence diurnal preference. In this study, we have investigated the associations between the PER3 gene polymorphisms and diurnal preference in a healthy young population, controlling for the social and environmental confounding factors.
METHODS
The participants in this experiment included 299 unrelated medical college students (M=191, F=108), with a mean age of 22.9 years. Diurnal preference was measured by a single administration of the 13-item Composite Scale for Morningness (CSM). Genotyping of the PER3 VNTR (rs57875989) was performed using polymerase chain reaction. A two-tailed alpha of 0.05 was chosen.
RESULTS
The mean+/-SD score on the CSM scale for all subjects was 31.90+/-6.39. There was no significant difference in total CSM score between gender groups, although females showed a trend towards higher morningness score. Although PER3 5R/5R showed the tendency towards high CSM scores, there were no significant differences on CSM scores among genotypes and allele status of PER3 VNTR (rs57875989).
CONCLUSIONS
We could not confirm that the PER3 VNTR is associated with diurnal preference in a Korean healthy young population. The future studies need to investigate the association between diurnal preference and other polymorphisms of PER3 gene in larger sample of Korean young healthy population.

Keyword

Diurnal preference; Polymorphism; PER3; Morningness

MeSH Terms

Alleles
Female
Genotype
Humans
Polymerase Chain Reaction
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