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# Whitaker Lab Website

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This repository contains the code to host the Whitaker Lab website: https://whitakerlab.github.io.

It is powered by Jekyll and based off the [So Simple Theme](http://mmistakes.github.io/so-simple-theme) by designer slash illustrator [Michael Rose](http://mademistakes.com). THANK YOU Michael :tada: :sparkles:

Continuous integration is managed by [Travis CI](https://travis-ci.org/). If our build status badge (at the top of this page) is not a beautiful bright green, please take a look and see if you can fix any of the problems!

## Some useful commands

I ([Kirstie](https://github.com/KirstieJane)) find myself googling for the following commands everytime I interact with this repository, so here they are to make my life easier!

* [Setting up your github pages site locally with jekyll](https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-your-github-pages-site-locally-with-jekyll)<br/>
Specifically I want the following command from [step 4](https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-your-github-pages-site-locally-with-jekyll/#step-4-build-your-local-jekyll-site) which builds the website locally<br/>

```
bundle exec jekyll serve
```
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In the Bullmore lab meetings recently I've mentioned a few papers that I'd seen on twitter and I promised to email them around. Here is that email (but as a blog post for posterity!)

Please note that these are absolutely *not* the only papers I've thought were interesting, just a non-random selection that I think others may want to know about :smile:

### Genetic analyses of depression

Two papers caught my eye. One from the [Psychiatric Genomics Consortium](https://www.med.unc.edu/pgc) and one from [Andrew McIntosh](https://twitter.com/mcintosh2001) and colleagues using [UK Biobank](http://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/) data.

#### Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

Wray, N. R., & Sullivan, P. F. (2017). Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression. bioRxiv. [https://doi.org/10.1101/167577](https://doi.org/10.1101/167577)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression <a href="https://t.co/nHBSvS9Kon">https://t.co/nHBSvS9Kon</a> <a href="https://t.co/5akAveqQgw">pic.twitter.com/5akAveqQgw</a></p>&mdash; GWAS_lit (@GWAS_lit) <a href="https://twitter.com/GWAS_lit/status/889472735486894081">July 24, 2017</a></blockquote>
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#### Genome-wide association study of depression phenotypes in UK Biobank (n = 322,580) identifies the enrichment of variants in excitatory synaptic pathways

Howard, D. M., Adams, M. J., Shirali, M., Clarke, T.-K., Marioni, R. E., Davies, G., … McIntosh, A. M. (2017). Genome-wide association study of depression phenotypes in UK Biobank (n = 322,580) identifies the enrichment of variants in excitatory synaptic pathways. bioRxiv. [https://doi.org/10.1101/168732](https://doi.org/10.1101/168732)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">New depression <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GWAS?src=hash">#GWAS</a> associations from <a href="https://twitter.com/uk_biobank">@uk_biobank</a> data with enrichment of variants in excitatory synaptic pathways <a href="https://t.co/KR2P1RNQFr">https://t.co/KR2P1RNQFr</a> <a href="https://t.co/a0XeMaYCjz">pic.twitter.com/a0XeMaYCjz</a></p>&mdash; Cathryn Lewis (@cathrynlewis) <a href="https://twitter.com/cathrynlewis/status/890492323574034432">July 27, 2017</a></blockquote>
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While I'm here talking about UK Biobank I want to share this resource: [https://biobankengine.stanford.edu](https://biobankengine.stanford.edu/search). I haven't explored it much, but it seems pretty fantastic!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Thrilled to release the first 500k UK <a href="https://twitter.com/uk_biobank">@uk_biobank</a> update to Global Biobank Engine from the Rivas Lab: <a href="https://t.co/a7XIdaM6sz">https://t.co/a7XIdaM6sz</a> <a href="https://t.co/x7lrrhjhVL">pic.twitter.com/x7lrrhjhVL</a></p>&mdash; Manuel Rivas (@manuelrivascruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/manuelrivascruz/status/893646060588998656">August 5, 2017</a></blockquote>
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### Problems with candidate gene lists for Schizophrenia

This paper is still in press (and the fact that the title is not formatted properly unreasonably annoys me) but I think it's an important one to consider if we're going to better understand the genetics of schizophrenia.

Johnson, E. C., Border, R., Melroy-Greif, W. E., de Leeuw, C., Ehringer, M. A., Keller, M. C., & al., et. (2017). Full title: No evidence that schizophrenia candidate genes are more associated with schizophrenia than non-candidate genes. Biological Psychiatry, 13(0), 537–551. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.06.033](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.06.033)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">No evidence that schizophrenia candidate genes are more associated with schizophrenia than non-candidate genes <a href="https://t.co/BeeERrh212">https://t.co/BeeERrh212</a></p>&mdash; PGC Consortium (@PGCgenetics) <a href="https://twitter.com/PGCgenetics/status/885438653987782656">July 13, 2017</a></blockquote>
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There's also this slightly older review paper that seems worth checking out:

Farrell, M. S., Werge, T., Sklar, P., Owen, M. J., Ophoff, R. A., O’Donovan, M. C., … Sullivan, P. F. (2015). Evaluating historical candidate genes for schizophrenia. Mol Psychiatry, 20(5), 555–562. https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2015.16 [PubMed](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25754081)

### Glial contributions to Schizophrenia

I'm a big fan of glial cells (particularly oligodendrocytes) so I wanted to like this paper which showed abnormal myelination in mice that had glial progenitor cells made from patients with childhood-onset schizophrenia.

Windrem, M. S., Osipovitch, M., Liu, Z., Bates, J., Chandler-Militello, D., Zou, L., … Goldman, S. A. (2017). Human iPSC Glial Mouse Chimeras Reveal Glial Contributions to Schizophrenia. Cell Stem Cell, 21(2), 195–208.e6. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2017.06.012](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2017.06.012)

But I can't like it because I can't download it! Gaaaaah! If someone finds the PDF please do share it back with me :unamused:.

There is a nice [STAT](https://www.statnews.com/2017/07/20/schizophrenia-chimeras/) write up though, which gives an overview.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mice were injected with cells from schizophrenic humans. Here&#39;s what happened <a href="https://t.co/HqgjcDgfnK">https://t.co/HqgjcDgfnK</a> <a href="https://t.co/lVl3XILupU">pic.twitter.com/lVl3XILupU</a></p>&mdash; STAT (@statnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/statnews/status/888247229747572739">July 21, 2017</a></blockquote>
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### Some fun stats papers

I love the idea behind this paper on a ***multiverse*** analysis. But I also didn't know that it already had a name: sensitivity analysis and statisticians have been doing them forever...

Steegan, S., Tuerlinckx, F., Gelman, A., & Vanpaemel, W. (2016). Increasing Transparency through a Multiverse Analysis. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(5), 702–712. [https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691616658637](https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691616658637)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Instantly sex up your sensitivity analyses—call them multiverse analyses <a href="https://t.co/udeerUwLb2">https://t.co/udeerUwLb2</a> <a href="https://t.co/BaDsq91fFP">pic.twitter.com/BaDsq91fFP</a></p>&mdash; Andy Fugard (@inductivestep) <a href="https://twitter.com/inductivestep/status/783190955360972800">October 4, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Simon White also recommended this book chapter for anyone looking for a reference on the rule of thumb AIC parameters:

* Δ AIC 0-2 : no evidence
* Δ AIC 2-6 : some evidence
* Δ AIC 6-10 : strong evidence
* Δ AIC 10+ : very strong evidence

Burnham, K. P., & Anderson, D. R. (2002). Model Selection and Multimodel Inference: A Practical Information-Theoretic Approach (2nd ed). Ecological Modelling (Vol. 172). Retrieved from [http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9780387953649](http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9780387953649)

### Artificial intelligence and neuroscience

I spoke at an event at the British Library about the [Life, work and legacy of Alan Turing](https://www.bl.uk/events/alan-turing-life-work-legacy) and read this paper to prepare. I liked it a lot!

Hassabis, D., Kumaran, D., Summerfield, C., & Botvinick, M. (2017). Neuroscience-Inspired Artificial Intelligence. Neuron, 95(2), 245–258. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.06.011](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.06.011)

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Our new Perspective article in Neuron, on how neuroscience and AI can help and influence each other: <a href="https://t.co/Ic8ZJ7dRlE">https://t.co/Ic8ZJ7dRlE</a></p>&mdash; Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) <a href="https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/888574077346230272">July 22, 2017</a></blockquote>
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### And finally

In lab meeting last week we rather adored this quote from a write up of the [Brain Connectivity Workshop](http://brain-connectivity-workshop.org/) in Cambridge in 2003.

> Finally, no report on a spring meeting in England would be complete without some comment on the notoriously capricious weather. Overseas participants were perhaps pleasantly surprised, on the evening of the first day, to find themselves enjoying a glass or two of Pimm’s (an English summer fruit punch) in a warm and sunny Cambridge garden. By the evening of the second day, however, cold and squally conditions threatened, but did not deter, the workshop’s collective voyage, in a flotilla of open punts, down the river Cam to dinner in a local restaurant: a subset of punters even opted for the hazardous return trip upstream after dinner, past the backs of some of the older colleges under low cloud late at night.
Bullmore, E., Harrison, L., Lee, L., Mechelli, A., & Friston, K. (2004). Brain Connectivity Workshop, Cambridge UK, May 2003. Neuroinformatics, 2(2), 123–126. [https://doi.org/10.1385/NI:2:2:123](https://doi.org/10.1385/NI:2:2:123)
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