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Richa Saxena, Ph.D.

Professor of Anaesthesia
617-643-8758
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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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Habitual sleep disturbances and migraine: a Mendelian randomization study.
Authors: Daghlas I, Vgontzas A, Guo Y, Chasman DI, Saxena R.
Ann Clin Transl Neurol
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Morning diurnal preference and food intake: a Mendelian randomization study.
Authors: Dashti HS, Chen A, Daghlas I, Saxena R.
Am J Clin Nutr
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Polygenic risk score for obesity and the quality, quantity, and timing of workplace food purchases: A secondary analysis from the ChooseWell 365 randomized trial.
Authors: Dashti HS, Hivert MF, Levy DE, McCurley JL, Saxena R, Thorndike AN.
PLoS Med
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Dimensionality reduction reveals fine-scale structure in the Japanese population with consequences for polygenic risk prediction.
Authors: Sakaue S, Hirata J, Kanai M, Suzuki K, Akiyama M, Lai Too C, Arayssi T, Hammoudeh M, Al Emadi S, Masri BK, Halabi H, Badsha H, Uthman IW, Saxena R, Padyukov L, Hirata M, Matsuda K, Murakami Y, Kamatani Y, Okada Y.
Nat Commun
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Melatonin Effects on Glucose Metabolism: Time To Unlock the Controversy.
Authors: Garaulet M, Qian J, Florez JC, Arendt J, Saxena R, Scheer FAJL.
Trends Endocrinol Metab
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Assessment of MTNR1B Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Risk Modification by Shift Work and Morningness-Eveningness Preference in the UK Biobank.
Authors: Dashti HS, Vetter C, Lane JM, Smith MC, Wood AR, Weedon MN, Rutter MK, Garaulet M, Scheer FAJL, Saxena R.
Diabetes
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Operating characteristics of the rank-based inverse normal transformation for quantitative trait analysis in genome-wide association studies.
Authors: McCaw ZR, Lane JM, Saxena R, Redline S, Lin X.
Biometrics
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Correction: Large-scale genome-wide meta-analysis of polycystic ovary syndrome suggests shared genetic architecture for different diagnosis criteria.
Authors: Day F, Karaderi T, Jones MR, Meun C, He C, Drong A, Kraft P, Lin N, Huang H, Broer L, Magi R, Saxena R, Laisk T, Urbanek M, Hayes MG, Thorleifsson G, Fernandez-Tajes J, Mahajan A, Mullin BH, Stuckey BGA, Spector TD, Wilson SG, Goodarzi MO, Davis L, Obermayer-Pietsch B, Uitterlinden AG, Anttila V, Neale BM, Jarvelin MR, Fauser B, Kowalska I, Visser JA, Andersen M, Ong K, Stener-Victorin E, Ehrmann D, Legro RS, Salumets A, McCarthy MI, Morin-Papunen L, Thorsteinsdottir U, Stefansson K, Styrkarsdottir U, Perry JRB, Dunaif A, Laven J, Franks S, Lindgren CM, Welt CK.
PLoS Genet
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Sequencing Analysis at 8p23 Identifies Multiple Rare Variants in DLC1 Associated with Sleep-Related Oxyhemoglobin Saturation Level.
Authors: Liang J, Cade BE, He KY, Wang H, Lee J, Sofer T, Williams S, Li R, Chen H, Gottlieb DJ, Evans DS, Guo X, Gharib SA, Hale L, Hillman DR, Lutsey PL, Mukherjee S, Ochs-Balcom HM, Palmer LJ, Rhodes J, Purcell S, Patel SR, Saxena R, Stone KL, Tang W, Tranah GJ, Boerwinkle E, Lin X, Liu Y, Psaty BM, Vasan RS, Cho MH, Manichaikul A, Silverman EK, Barr RG, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Wilson JG, Redline S, Zhu X.
Am J Hum Genet
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Evolutionarily conserved regulation of sleep by epidermal growth factor receptor signaling.
Authors: Lee DA, Liu J, Hong Y, Lane JM, Hill AJ, Hou SL, Wang H, Oikonomou G, Pham U, Engle J, Saxena R, Prober DA.
Sci Adv
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