"short sleeper" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2004, Pierre-Hervé Luppi, Sleep: Circuits and Functions, →ISBN, page 158:",
          "text": "The demonstration that the short sleeper phenotype can be reverted in these lines by transposon jumping indicates that a single gene is likely to be involved.",
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          "ref": "2005, Stephen H. Sheldon, Richard Ferber, Meir H. Kryger, Principles and Practice of Pediatric Sleep Medicine, →ISBN, page 147:",
          "text": "As previously mentioned, short sleep has been linked to reduced life expectancy. This relationship probably has its source mainly in short total sleep time patterns resulting from medical and/or other sleep pathologies and not in short sleep itself, as represented by the short sleeper.",
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          "ref": "2006, Jim Horne, Sleepfaring: A Journey Through the Science of Sleep, →ISBN, page 174:",
          "text": "Both are fairly normal in the sense that the short sleeper is not a 'shortened' sleeper who used to sleep for longer and then decided to restrict him- or herself, nor does the longer sleeper have a sleep disorder.",
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        "A person who consistently requires substantially less sleep every day than the customary amount for most people of the same age and developmental level."
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          "ref": "2006, Jim Horne, Sleepfaring: A Journey Through the Science of Sleep, →ISBN, page 174:",
          "text": "Both are fairly normal in the sense that the short sleeper is not a 'shortened' sleeper who used to sleep for longer and then decided to restrict him- or herself, nor does the longer sleeper have a sleep disorder.",
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