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Why do some people need less sleep than others? A gene variation could have something to do with it

By Kelly Sansom, Research Associate, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University; Research Associate, Centre for Healthy Ageing, Murdoch University
Peter Eastwood, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research and Innovation, Murdoch University

A small proportion of people can do well on only a few hours of sleep a night. Here’s why that might be.

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