Gandal et al analyzed autism spectrum disorder, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder across multiple levels of transcriptomic organization—gene expression, local splicing, transcript isoform expression, and coexpression networks for both protein-coding and noncoding genes to produce a quantitative, genome-wide resource. They performed TWAS based on 2,188 postmortem frontal and temporal cerebral cortex samples from 1,695 adults. RNA-sequencing reads were aligned to the GRCh37.p13 (hg19) reference genome. We generated a model using elastic-net weights released by Gandal et al. More info on the study: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6420/eaat8127. The TWAS is available at http://resource.psychencode.org

Sabrina re-formatted the prediction models generated by Gandal et al into a sqlite database so that it’s compatible with with PrediXcan software. The script used for that is here https://github.com/hakyimlab/psychencode/blob/master/analysis/generate_weights.Rmd. The model weights were stored in Predictdb format and can be accessed from here.

Comparison of the different prediction models are compared here. Short conclusion: elastic net performance is just fine. No need to use other models. We also have seen that BSLMM and BLUP can increase LD contamination so I wouldn’t recommend those models even if prediction performance was better.

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@misc{
  title = "PsychENCODE Brain Expression Models",
  author = "Sabrina Mi",
  year = "2020",
  journal = "PredictDB",
  note = "/post/2020/07/19/psychencode-brain-expression-models/"
}