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Comprehensive functional genomic resource and integrative model for the human brain

Wang, Daifeng
Mattei, Eugenio
Moore, Jill E
Weng, Zhiping
Geschwind, Daniel H.
Knowles, James A.
Gerstein, Mark B.
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Despite progress in defining genetic risk for psychiatric disorders, their molecular mechanisms remain elusive. Addressing this, the PsychENCODE Consortium has generated a comprehensive online resource for the adult brain across 1866 individuals. The PsychENCODE resource contains ~79,000 brain-active enhancers, sets of Hi-C linkages, and topologically associating domains; single-cell expression profiles for many cell types; expression quantitative-trait loci (QTLs); and further QTLs associated with chromatin, splicing, and cell-type proportions. Integration shows that varying cell-type proportions largely account for the cross-population variation in expression (with > 88% reconstruction accuracy). It also allows building of a gene regulatory network, linking genome-wide association study variants to genes (e.g., 321 for schizophrenia). We embed this network into an interpretable deep-learning model, which improves disease prediction by ~6-fold versus polygenic risk scores and identifies key genes and pathways in psychiatric disorders.

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Science. 2018 Dec 14;362(6420). pii: eaat8464. doi: 10.1126/science.aat8464. Link to article on publisher's site

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10.1126/science.aat8464
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