Social Environment Has a Sizable Impact on Health and Disease in Mice (IMAGE)
Caption
This is an artist's interpretation of a couple experiencing 'social genetic effects'. Author's explanation: 'Say you are a morning person and your partner is a night owl, so you might go to bed later than you'd like or they might read in bed while you are trying to sleep', explains Baud. 'You develop an illness, but don't mention the sleep situation to your doctor because you don't know that it's important. If there is a connection between your illness and the genes that regulate your partner's sleep pattern, with the right advice, you and your night owl could then make the right change to ensure you get the sleep you need to heal. With this change, you would be mitigating the influence of the night owl's genotypes on your health.'
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Illustration by Spencer Phillips, EMBL-EBI.
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