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A step forward for restless legs syndrome

Nature Genetics volume 39, pages 938–939 (2007)Cite this article

Two genome-wide association studies report three loci predisposing to restless legs syndrome, a common sleep disorder also associated with periodic limb movements during sleep. The identified variants account for a large portion of population-attributable risk in individuals of European ancestry and may preferentially affect various symptoms of the disorder.

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  1. Emmanuel Mignot is at the Center for Narcolepsy, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA. mignot@stanford.edu,

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