DNA’s relationship with sleep

Recent studies by genetic researches have shown that there is a noticeable link between sleep and the way your DNA takes shape. During the daytime when people are awake, DNA or the so-called building blocks of life are tightly coiled while at night, they are loosely wound. This gives credence to the existence of a biological clock that is encoded somewhere in our genes and is controlled and manipulated by activities such as sleep and other bodily functions. This might explain the ability of the body to loose control such as when traveling and shifting through time zones disrupting the biological clock which is highly dependent on the day and night cycle. The link may be in our genes and the Genome project has already found surprising details on how the genes that make up our DNA influence and can be changed by our habits.