Richa Saxena

51.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
171 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Richa Saxena is a scholar working on Genetics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Richa Saxena has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Genetics, 41 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 39 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Richa Saxena's work include Sleep and related disorders (36 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (32 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (30 papers). Richa Saxena is often cited by papers focused on Sleep and related disorders (36 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (32 papers) and Circadian rhythm and melatonin (30 papers). Richa Saxena collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Spain. Richa Saxena's co-authors include Jacqueline M. Lane, Frank A. J. L. Scheer, Hassan S. Dashti, Martin K. Rutter, Susan Redline, Céline Vetter, Marta Garaulet, José C. Florez, David Altshuler and Simon Anderson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Richa Saxena

153 papers receiving 6.2k citations

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Genetics of circadian rhythms and sleep in human health and disease

2022 117 citations Jacqueline M. Lane, Susan Redline et al. profile →
Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration: A prospective cohort study

2023 101 citations Angus C. Burns, Jacqueline M. Lane et al. SLEEP profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Clinical utility of self-reported sleep duration and insomnia symptoms in type 2 diabetes prediction 2025 ·Diabetologia ·Alison K. Wright, Tianyi Huang, Matthew Carr, (unknown), Sushant Saluja, Hassan S. Dashti, Simon Anderson, David Ray, Samuel E. Jones, Andrew R. Wood, Timothy M. Frayling, Michael N. Weedon, Jacqueline M. Lane, Richa Saxena, (unknown), Jack Bowden, Debbie A. Lawlor, Susan Redline, Martin K. Rutter	0
2	Genetic associations between serotonin receptor 1F (HTR1F) regulatory variation and sleep apnoea in non-obese individuals: insights from GWAS and eQTL analyses 2025 ·European Respiratory Journal ·Satu Strausz, Martin Broberg, Samuel E. Jones, Jukka Koskela, Tuomo Kiiskinen, (unknown), Aarno Palotie, Tuula Palotie, Adel Bachour, Richa Saxena, Samuli Ripatti, Erik Abner, Hanna M. Ollila	0
3	Clinical and genetic associations for night eating syndrome in a patient biobank 2024 ·Journal of Eating Disorders ·(unknown), Richa Saxena, John W. Winkelman, Hassan S. Dashti	0
4	Neuron-targeted exosome therapy: A novel approach for treating cardiogenic dementia via RyR2 inhibition 2024 ·Medical Hypotheses ·Richa Saxena, Yaoliang Tang	1
5	Impact of polygenic score for BMI on weight loss effectiveness and genome-wide association analysis 2024 ·International Journal of Obesity ·Hassan S. Dashti, Frank A. J. L. Scheer, Richa Saxena, Marta Garaulet	4
6	0034 Genetic Variants for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Identified after Modeling Interactions with Daytime Sleepiness 2023 ·SLEEP ·(unknown), Han Chen, (unknown), Nuzulul Kurniansyah, Shaun Purcell, Richa Saxena, Xiaofeng Zhu, Brian E. Cade, Tamar Sofer, Susan Redline, Heming Wang, (unknown)	0
7	Evening types as determined by subjective and objective measures are more emotional eaters 2023 ·Obesity ·Marta Garaulet, Bárbara Vizmanos, (unknown), (unknown), María‐Ángeles Bonmatí‐Carrión, Céline Vetter, Hassan S. Dashti, Richa Saxena, Frank A. J. L. Scheer	8
8	Updated variant curation expert panel criteria and pathogenicity classifications for 251 variants for RYR1 -related malignant hyperthermia susceptibility 2022 ·Human Molecular Genetics ·Jennifer J. Johnston, Robert T. Dirksen, Thierry Girard, Philip M. Hopkins, Natalia Kraeva, Ognoon Mungunsukh, (unknown), Sheila Riazi, Rachel L. Robinson, Louis Saddic, Nyamkhishig Sambuughin, Richa Saxena, (unknown), Kathryn M. Stowell, James L. Weber, (unknown), Henry Rosenberg, Leslie G. Biesecker	15
9	Genome-wide gene by environment study of time spent in daylight and chronotype identifies emerging genetic architecture underlying light sensitivity 2022 ·SLEEP ·Angus C. Burns, Andrew J. K. Phillips, Martin K. Rutter, Richa Saxena, Sean W. Cain, Jacqueline M. Lane	11
10	How Accurately Can We Recall the Timing of Food Intake? A Comparison of Food Times from Recall-Based Survey Questions and Daily Food Records 2022 ·Current Developments in Nutrition ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Céline Vetter, Marta Garaulet, Frank A. J. L. Scheer, Richa Saxena, Hassan S. Dashti	15
11	Assessing the Causal Role of Sleep Traits on Glycated Hemoglobin: A Mendelian Randomization Study 2022 ·Diabetes Care ·(unknown), Rebecca C. Richmond, Jack Bowden, (unknown), Hassan S. Dashti, Iyas Daghlas, Jacqueline M. Lane, Samuel E. Jones, Andrew R. Wood, Timothy M. Frayling, Alison K. Wright, Matthew Carr, Simon Anderson, Richard Emsley, David Ray, Michael N. Weedon, Richa Saxena, Debbie A. Lawlor, Martin K. Rutter	37
12	Sleep patterns of patients receiving home parenteral nutrition: A home‐based observational study 2022 ·Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition ·Hassan S. Dashti, (unknown), Angela Chen, Kris M. Mogensen, Aaron Leong, David L. Burns, Marion F. Winkler, Richa Saxena, Charlene Compher	10
13	Genetic risk for obesity and the effectiveness of the ChooseWell 365 workplace intervention to prevent weight gain and improve dietary choices 2021 ·American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·Hassan S. Dashti, Douglas E. Levy, Marie‐France Hivert, (unknown), Jessica L. McCurley, Richa Saxena, Anne N. Thorndike	4
14	Sleep health, diseases, and pain syndromes: findings from an electronic health record biobank 2020 ·SLEEP ·Hassan S. Dashti, Brian E. Cade, (unknown), Richa Saxena, Susan Redline, Elizabeth W. Karlson	29
15	Polygenic risk score for obesity and the quality, quantity, and timing of workplace food purchases: A secondary analysis from the ChooseWell 365 randomized trial 2020 ·PLoS Medicine ·Hassan S. Dashti, Marie‐France Hivert, Douglas E. Levy, Jessica L. McCurley, Richa Saxena, Anne N. Thorndike	19
16	Operating characteristics of the rank‐based inverse normal transformation for quantitative trait analysis in genome‐wide association studies 2019 ·Biometrics ·Zachary R. McCaw, Jacqueline M. Lane, Richa Saxena, Susan Redline, Xihong Lin	117
17	Association of DAT1 genetic variants with habitual sleep duration in the UK Biobank 2018 ·SLEEP ·Jessica A. Rhodes, Jacqueline M. Lane, Irma Vlasac, Martin K. Rutter, Charles A. Czeisler, Richa Saxena	9
18	Modifiable lifestyle behaviors, but not a genetic risk score, associate with metabolic syndrome in evening chronotypes 2018 ·Scientific Reports ·(unknown), Hassan S. Dashti, Purificación Gómez-Abellán, (unknown), (unknown), Frank A. J. L. Scheer, Richa Saxena, Marta Garaulet	90
19	No Association between the Mitochondrial Genome and Prostate Cancer Risk: The Multiethnic Cohort 2016 ·Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Elena Giorgi, Yuqing Li, Christian Caberto, Kenneth B. Beckman, Annette Lum‐Jones, Christopher A. Haiman, Loı̈c Le Marchand, Daniel O. Stram, Richa Saxena, Iona Cheng	14
20	Genome-wide association analyses of sleep disturbance traits identify new loci and highlight shared genetics with neuropsychiatric and metabolic traits 2016 ·Nature Genetics ·Jacqueline M. Lane, Jingjing Liang, Irma Vlasac, Simon Anderson, David A. Bechtold, Jack Bowden, Richard Emsley, Shubhroz Gill, Max A. Little, Annemarie I. Luik, Andrew Loudon, Frank A. J. L. Scheer, Shaun Purcell, Simon D. Kyle, Debbie A. Lawlor, Xiaofeng Zhu, Susan Redline, David Ray, Martin K. Rutter, Richa Saxena	226

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