{"id":89941,"date":"2019-04-25T06:22:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T13:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/scientists-say-theyve-found-the-annoying-gene-mutation-that-turns-us-into-night-owls"},"modified":"2019-04-25T06:22:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T13:22:34","slug":"scientists-say-theyve-found-the-annoying-gene-mutation-that-turns-us-into-night-owls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/scientists-say-theyve-found-the-annoying-gene-mutation-that-turns-us-into-night-owls","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say They\u2019ve Found The Annoying Gene Mutation That Turns Us Into Night Owls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-theyve-found-the-annoying-gene-mutation-that-turns-us-into-night-owls2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Any night owls reading this will be familiar with the struggle of constantly trying to fit into a morning person\u2019s world. And researchers might have finally identified the genetic typo that causes this social jetlag.<\/p>\n<p>A 2017 study revealed that many people who stay up late and struggle to wake up in the morning aren\u2019t lazy, their internal clock is simply genetically programmed to run between 2 and 2.5 hours slower than the rest of the population, thanks to a mutation in a body clock gene called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/gene\/1407\">CRY1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarriers of the mutation have longer days than the planet gives them, so they are essentially playing catch-up for their entire lives,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scimex.org\/newsfeed\/the-genetic-key-to-night-owl-behaviour\">said lead researcher Alina Patke<\/a> from The Rockefeller University in New York.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-say-they-ve-found-the-annoying-gene-mutation-that-turns-us-into-night-owls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any night owls reading this will be familiar with the struggle of constantly trying to fit into a morning person\u2019s world. And researchers might have finally identified the genetic typo that causes this social jetlag. A 2017 study revealed that many people who stay up late and struggle to wake up in the morning aren\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}