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Richa Saxena, Ph.D.

617-643-8758
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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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Variants in angiopoietin-2 (ANGPT2) contribute to variation in nocturnal oxyhaemoglobin saturation level.
Authors: Wang H, Cade BE, Chen H, Gleason KJ, Saxena R, Feng T, Larkin EK, Vasan RS, Lin H, Patel SR, Tracy RP, Liu Y, Gottlieb DJ, Below JE, Hanis CL, Petty LE, Sunyaev SR, Frazier-Wood AC, Rotter JI, Post W, Lin X, Redline S, Zhu X.
Hum Mol Genet
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Genetic Associations with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Traits in Hispanic/Latino Americans.
Authors: Cade BE, Chen H, Stilp AM, Gleason KJ, Sofer T, Ancoli-Israel S, Arens R, Bell GI, Below JE, Bjonnes AC, Chun S, Conomos MP, Evans DS, Johnson WC, Frazier-Wood AC, Lane JM, Larkin EK, Loredo JS, Post WS, Ramos AR, Rice K, Rotter JI, Shah NA, Stone KL, Taylor KD, Thornton TA, Tranah GJ, Wang C, Zee PC, Hanis CL, Sunyaev SR, Patel SR, Laurie CC, Zhu X, Saxena R, Lin X, Redline S.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med
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No Association between the Mitochondrial Genome and Prostate Cancer Risk: The Multiethnic Cohort.
Authors: Giorgi EE, Li Y, Caberto CP, Beckman KB, Lum-Jones A, Haiman CA, Le Marchand L, Stram DO, Saxena R, Cheng I.
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev
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Impact of Common Diabetes Risk Variant in MTNR1B on Sleep, Circadian, and Melatonin Physiology.
Authors: Lane JM, Chang AM, Bjonnes AC, Aeschbach D, Anderson C, Cade BE, Cain SW, Czeisler CA, Gharib SA, Gooley JJ, Gottlieb DJ, Grant SF, Klerman EB, Lauderdale DS, Lockley SW, Munch M, Patel S, Punjabi NM, Rajaratnam SM, Rueger M, St Hilaire MA, Santhi N, Scheuermaier K, Van Reen E, Zee PC, Shea SA, Duffy JF, Buxton OM, Redline S, Scheer FA, Saxena R.
Diabetes
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CSF1R mosaicism in a family with hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with spheroids.
Authors: Eichler FS, Li J, Guo Y, Caruso PA, Bjonnes AC, Pan J, Booker JK, Lane JM, Tare A, Vlasac I, Hakonarson H, Gusella JF, Zhang J, Keating BJ, Saxena R.
Brain
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Comparison of Heritability Estimation and Linkage Analysis for Multiple Traits Using Principal Component Analyses.
Authors: Liang J, Cade BE, Wang H, Chen H, Gleason KJ, Larkin EK, Saxena R, Lin X, Redline S, Zhu X.
Genet Epidemiol
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Genome-wide association study of 25(OH) Vitamin D concentrations in Punjabi Sikhs: Results of the Asian Indian diabetic heart study.
Authors: Sapkota BR, Hopkins R, Bjonnes A, Ralhan S, Wander GS, Mehra NK, Singh JR, Blackett PR, Saxena R, Sanghera DK.
J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol
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Genome-wide association analysis identifies novel loci for chronotype in 100,420 individuals from the UK Biobank.
Authors: Lane JM, Vlasac I, Anderson SG, Kyle SD, Dixon WG, Bechtold DA, Gill S, Little MA, Luik A, Loudon A, Emsley R, Scheer FA, Lawlor DA, Redline S, Ray DW, Rutter MK, Saxena R.
Nat Commun
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Genome-wide association studies in the Japanese population identify seven novel loci for type 2 diabetes.
Authors: Imamura M, Takahashi A, Yamauchi T, Hara K, Yasuda K, Grarup N, Zhao W, Wang X, Huerta-Chagoya A, Hu C, Moon S, Long J, Kwak SH, Rasheed A, Saxena R, Ma RC, Okada Y, Iwata M, Hosoe J, Shojima N, Iwasaki M, Fujita H, Suzuki K, Danesh J, Jørgensen T, Jørgensen ME, Witte DR, Brandslund I, Christensen C, Hansen T, Mercader JM, Flannick J, Moreno-Macías H, Burtt NP, Zhang R, Kim YJ, Zheng W, Singh JR, Tam CH, Hirose H, Maegawa H, Ito C, Kaku K, Watada H, Tanaka Y, Tobe K, Kawamori R, Kubo M, Cho YS, Chan JC, Sanghera D, Frossard P, Park KS, Shu XO, Kim BJ, Florez JC, Tusié-Luna T, Jia W, Tai ES, Pedersen O, Saleheen D, Maeda S, Kadowaki T.
Nat Commun
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Common variants in DRD2 are associated with sleep duration: the CARe consortium.
Authors: Cade BE, Gottlieb DJ, Lauderdale DS, Bennett DA, Buchman AS, Buxbaum SG, De Jager PL, Evans DS, Fülöp T, Gharib SA, Johnson WC, Kim H, Larkin EK, Lee SK, Lim AS, Punjabi NM, Shin C, Stone KL, Tranah GJ, Weng J, Yaffe K, Zee PC, Patel SR, Zhu X, Redline S, Saxena R.
Hum Mol Genet
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