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Richa Saxena, Ph.D.

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Harvard Title

Professor of Anaesthesia

Administrative and Hospital Titles

Associate Geneticist, Center for Genomic Medicine Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Director of Genetics of Sleep and Circadian Research Program in Sleep Epidemiology, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Associate Member, Broad Institute

Address

Massachusetts General Hospital
Simches Research Ctr
185 Cambridge Street, CPZN 5.802
Boston, MA 02114

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Timing of Food Intake: Identifying Contributing Factors to Design Effective Interventions.
Authors: Dashti HS, Scheer FAJL, Saxena R, Garaulet M.
Adv Nutr
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Investigating causal relations between sleep traits and risk of breast cancer in women: mendelian randomisation study.
Authors: Richmond RC, Anderson EL, Dashti HS, Jones SE, Lane JM, Strand LB, Brumpton B, Rutter MK, Wood AR, Straif K, Relton CL, Munafò M, Frayling TM, Martin RM, Saxena R, Weedon MN, Lawlor DA, Smith GD.
BMJ
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How Accurately Can We Recall Food Timing? A Validity Study of a Novel Food Timing Questionnaire (P18-016-19).
Authors: Guirette M, Dashti H, Tucker C, Vetter C, Garaulet M, Scheer F, Saxena R.
Curr Dev Nutr
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Genetic studies of accelerometer-based sleep measures yield new insights into human sleep behaviour.
Authors: Jones SE, van Hees VT, Mazzotti DR, Marques-Vidal P, Sabia S, van der Spek A, Dashti HS, Engmann J, Kocevska D, Tyrrell J, Beaumont RN, Hillsdon M, Ruth KS, Tuke MA, Yaghootkar H, Sharp SA, Ji Y, Harrison JW, Freathy RM, Murray A, Luik AI, Amin N, Lane JM, Saxena R, Rutter MK, Tiemeier H, Kutalik Z, Kumari M, Frayling TM, Weedon MN, Gehrman PR, Wood AR.
Nat Commun
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Associations of variants In the hexokinase 1 and interleukin 18 receptor regions with oxyhemoglobin saturation during sleep.
Authors: Cade BE, Chen H, Stilp AM, Louie T, Ancoli-Israel S, Arens R, Barfield R, Below JE, Cai J, Conomos MP, Evans DS, Frazier-Wood AC, Gharib SA, Gleason KJ, Gottlieb DJ, Hillman DR, Johnson WC, Lederer DJ, Lee J, Loredo JS, Mei H, Mukherjee S, Patel SR, Post WS, Purcell SM, Ramos AR, Reid KJ, Rice K, Shah NA, Sofer T, Taylor KD, Thornton TA, Wang H, Yaffe K, Zee PC, Hanis CL, Palmer LJ, Rotter JI, Stone KL, Tranah GJ, Wilson JG, Sunyaev SR, Laurie CC, Zhu X, Saxena R, Lin X, Redline S.
PLoS Genet
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Heritability of the timing of food intake.
Authors: Lopez-Minguez J, Dashti HS, Madrid-Valero JJ, Madrid JA, Saxena R, Scheer FAJL, Ordoñana JR, Garaulet M.
Clin Nutr
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Chronotype Genetic Variant in PER2 is Associated with Intrinsic Circadian Period in Humans.
Authors: Chang AM, Duffy JF, Buxton OM, Lane JM, Aeschbach D, Anderson C, Bjonnes AC, Cain SW, Cohen DA, Frayling TM, Gooley JJ, Jones SE, Klerman EB, Lockley SW, Munch M, Rajaratnam SMW, Rueger M, Rutter MK, Santhi N, Scheuermaier K, Van Reen E, Weedon MN, Czeisler CA, Scheer FAJL, Saxena R.
Sci Rep
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Genome-wide association study identifies genetic loci for self-reported habitual sleep duration supported by accelerometer-derived estimates.
Authors: Dashti HS, Jones SE, Wood AR, Lane JM, van Hees VT, Wang H, Rhodes JA, Song Y, Patel K, Anderson SG, Beaumont RN, Bechtold DA, Bowden J, Cade BE, Garaulet M, Kyle SD, Little MA, Loudon AS, Luik AI, Scheer FAJL, Spiegelhalder K, Tyrrell J, Gottlieb DJ, Tiemeier H, Ray DW, Purcell SM, Frayling TM, Redline S, Lawlor DA, Rutter MK, Weedon MN, Saxena R.
Nat Commun
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Polygenic risk score identifies associations between sleep duration and diseases determined from an electronic medical record biobank.
Authors: Dashti HS, Redline S, Saxena R.
Sleep
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Biological and clinical insights from genetics of insomnia symptoms.
Authors: Lane JM, Jones SE, Dashti HS, Wood AR, Aragam KG, van Hees VT, Strand LB, Winsvold BS, Wang H, Bowden J, Song Y, Patel K, Anderson SG, Beaumont RN, Bechtold DA, Cade BE, Haas M, Kathiresan S, Little MA, Luik AI, Loudon AS, Purcell S, Richmond RC, Scheer FAJL, Schormair B, Tyrrell J, Winkelman JW, Winkelmann J, Hveem K, Zhao C, Nielsen JB, Willer CJ, Redline S, Spiegelhalder K, Kyle SD, Ray DW, Zwart JA, Brumpton B, Frayling TM, Lawlor DA, Rutter MK, Weedon MN, Saxena R.
Nat Genet
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