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Richa Saxena, Ph.D.

617-643-8758
Harvard Catalyst Profile
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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Variation in the human genome and risk to common disease. Keystone Symposium on 'Human Genome Sequence Variation and the Inherited Basis of Common Diseases'. January 8-13, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA.
Authors: de Bakker PI, Saxena R, Graham RR.
Pharmacogenomics
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Optical mapping of BAC clones from the human Y chromosome DAZ locus.
Authors: Giacalone J, Delobette S, Gibaja V, Ni L, Skiadas Y, Qi R, Edington J, Lai Z, Gebauer D, Zhao H, Anantharaman T, Mishra B, Brown LG, Saxena R, Page DC, Schwartz DC.
Genome Res
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Four DAZ genes in two clusters found in the AZFc region of the human Y chromosome.
Authors: Saxena R, de Vries JW, Repping S, Alagappan RK, Skaletsky H, Brown LG, Ma P, Chen E, Hoovers JM, Page DC.
Genomics
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The DAZ gene cluster on the human Y chromosome arose from an autosomal gene that was transposed, repeatedly amplified and pruned.
Authors: Saxena R, Brown LG, Hawkins T, Alagappan RK, Skaletsky H, Reeve MP, Reijo R, Rozen S, Dinulos MB, Disteche CM, Page DC.
Nat Genet
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Linkage of a familial platelet disorder with a propensity to develop myeloid malignancies to human chromosome 21q22.1-22.2.
Authors: Ho CY, Otterud B, Legare RD, Varvil T, Saxena R, DeHart DB, Kohler SE, Aster JC, Dowton SB, Li FP, Leppert M, Gilliland DG.
Blood
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Identification of a new variant CYP2D6 allele with a single base deletion in exon 3 and its association with the poor metabolizer phenotype.
Authors: Saxena R, Shaw GL, Relling MV, Frame JN, Moir DT, Evans WE, Caporaso N, Weiffenbach B.
Hum Mol Genet
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