Time spent sitting, sleeping and moving is determined in part by our genes, University of Oxford researchers have shown.
Time spent sitting, sleeping and moving is determined in part by our genes, University of Oxford researchers have shown.
In one of the most detailed projects of its kind, the scientists studied the activity of 91,105 UK Biobank participants who had previously worn an activity monitor on their wrist for a week.
The scientists taught machines to automatically identify active and sedentary life from the huge amounts of activity monitor data.
They then combined this data with UK Biobank genetic information to reveal 14 genetic regions related to activity, seven new to science, they report in Nature Communications today (Monday 10 December).
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