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by Irregardless 4814 days ago
> Dr. Ying-Hui Fu, a human geneticist and neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, is part of a team that has found genetic mutations in short sleepers.

> Unfortunately, she says, if it's not in your genes, you're out of luck.

I'm going to have to trust the doctor on this one...

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But... but... but... <anecdote>!
but how would I find out if I'm a carrier of this mutation??

I mean sometimes for days on end I can do with 4hrs of sleep and then there are times I look like death with 4hrs...