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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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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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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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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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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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Sound and light levels in intensive care units in a large urban hospital in the United States.
Authors: Leone MJ, Dashti HS, Coughlin B, Tesh RA, Quadri SA, Bucklin AA, Adra N, Krishnamurthy PV, Ye EM, Hemmige A, Rajan S, Panneerselvam E, Higgins J, Ayub MA, Ganglberger W, Paixao L, Houle TT, Thompson BT, Johnson-Akeju O, Saxena R, Kimchi E, Cash SS, Thomas RJ, Westover MB.
Chronobiol Int
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Polygenic prediction of preeclampsia and gestational hypertension.
Authors: Honigberg MC, Truong B, Khan RR, Xiao B, Bhatta L, Vy HMT, Guerrero RF, Schuermans A, Selvaraj MS, Patel AP, Koyama S, Cho SMJ, Vellarikkal SK, Trinder M, Urbut SM, Gray KJ, Brumpton BM, Patil S, Zöllner S, Antopia MC, Saxena R, Nadkarni GN, Do R, Yan Q, Pe'er I, Verma SS, Gupta RM, Haas DM, Martin HC, van Heel DA, Laisk T, Natarajan P.
Nat Med
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Circadian Rest-Activity Rhythms, Delirium Risk, and Progression to Dementia.
Authors: Gao L, Li P, Gaykova N, Zheng X, Gao C, Lane JM, Saxena R, Scheer FAJL, Rutter MK, Akeju O, Hu K.
Ann Neurol
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Genetic predisposition to macronutrient preference and workplace food choices.
Authors: Merino J, Dashti HS, Levy DE, Del Rocío Sevilla-González M, Hivert MF, Porneala BC, Saxena R, Thorndike AN.
Mol Psychiatry
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