Comprehensive functional genomic resource and integrative model for the human brain.

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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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Cited Authors

  • Wang, D; Liu, S; Warrell, J; Won, H; Shi, X; Navarro, FCP; Clarke, D; Gu, M; Emani, P; Yang, YT; Xu, M; Gandal, MJ; Lou, S; Zhang, J; Park, JJ; Yan, C; Rhie, SK; Manakongtreecheep, K; Zhou, H; Nathan, A; Peters, M; Mattei, E; Fitzgerald, D; Brunetti, T; Moore, J; Jiang, Y; Girdhar, K; Hoffman, GE; Kalayci, S; Gümüş, ZH; Crawford, GE; PsychENCODE Consortium, ; Roussos, P; Akbarian, S; Jaffe, AE; White, KP; Weng, Z; Sestan, N; Geschwind, DH; Knowles, JA; Gerstein, MB

Published Date

  • December 14, 2018

Published In

Volume / Issue

  • 362 / 6420

PubMed ID

  • 30545857

Pubmed Central ID

  • PMC6413328

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1095-9203

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1126/science.aat8464

Language

  • eng

Conference Location

  • United States