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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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Genetic Predisposition to Elevated C-Reactive Protein and Risk of Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
Authors: Huang T, Goodman M, Wang H, Sofer T, Tworoger SS, Stampfer MJ, Saxena R, Redline S.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med
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Glycemic and sleep effects of daytime compared with those of overnight infusions of home parenteral nutrition in adults with short bowel syndrome: A quasi-experimental pilot trial.
Authors: Dashti HS, Leong A, Mogensen KM, Annambhotla M, Li P, Deng H, Carey AN, Burns DL, Winkler MF, Compher C, Saxena R.
Am J Clin Nutr
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Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration: A prospective cohort study.
Authors: Windred DP, Burns AC, Lane JM, Saxena R, Rutter MK, Cain SW, Phillips AJK.
Sleep
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The Role of Circadian Rhythms and Sleep in Anorexia Nervosa.
Authors: Wilcox H, Paz V, Saxena R, Winkelman JW, Garfield V, Dashti HS.
JAMA Netw Open
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Causal Association Between Subtypes of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness and Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases.
Authors: Goodman MO, Dashti HS, Lane JM, Windred DP, Burns A, Jones SE, Sofer T, Purcell SM, Zhu X, Ollila HM, Kyle SD, Spiegelhalder K, Peker Y, Huang T, Cain SW, Phillips AJK, Saxena R, Rutter MK, Redline S, Wang H.
J Am Heart Assoc
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Multi-ancestry genome-wide analysis identifies shared genetic effects and common genetic variants for self-reported sleep duration.
Authors: Scammell BH, Tchio C, Song Y, Nishiyama T, Louie TL, Dashti HS, Nakatochi M, Zee PC, Daghlas I, Momozawa Y, Cai J, Ollila HM, Redline S, Wakai K, Sofer T, Suzuki S, Lane JM, Saxena R.
Hum Mol Genet
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CIRCUST: A novel methodology for temporal order reconstruction of molecular rhythms; validation and application towards a daily rhythm gene expression atlas in humans.
Authors: Larriba Y, Mason IC, Saxena R, Scheer FAJL, Rueda C.
PLoS Comput Biol
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Evaluating the association between genetically proxied ACE inhibition and dementias.
Authors: Nassan M, Daghlas I, Piras IS, Rogalski E, Reus LM, Pijnenburg Y, Cuddy LK, Saxena R, Mesulam MM, Huentelman M.
Alzheimers Dement
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A Novel Home-Based Study of Circadian Rhythms: Design, Rationale, and Methods for the Circadia Study.
Authors: Vlasac IM, Bormes GW, Do E, Benkhoukha SS, Diallo N, Fryou NL, Gioia S, Akeju O, Joseph C, Kuan A, Lapan J, Oluwadara D, Team TP, Rahman SA, Saxena R, Scheer FAJL, Westover MB, Winkelman JW, Woodson F, Lane JM.
Sleep
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The public health impact of poor sleep on severe COVID-19, influenza and upper respiratory infections.
Authors: Jones SE, Maisha FI, Strausz SJ, Lammi V, Cade BE, Tervi A, Helaakoski V, Broberg ME, Lane JM, Redline S, Saxena R, Ollila HM.
EBioMedicine
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