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Cross-cohort Alzheimer's disease (AD) blood transcriptomic prediction is sensitive to batch effects introduced during dataset harmonization. Standard pipelines treat batch correction and feature selection as independent steps, allowing features that required extreme mathematical rescuing during harmonization to dominate predictive models—a phenomenon we characterize as the **"Harmonization-Dominance" Failure Mode**.

Cross-cohort Alzheimer's disease (AD) blood transcriptomic prediction is sensitive to batch effects introduced during dataset harmonization. Standard pipelines treat batch correction and feature selection as independent steps, allowing features that required extreme mathematical rescuing during harmonization to dominate predictive models—a phenomenon we characterize as the **"Harmonization-Dominance" Failure Mode**.

Cross-cohort Alzheimer's disease (AD) blood transcriptomic prediction is sensitive to batch effects introduced during dataset harmonization. Standard pipelines treat batch correction and feature selection as independent steps, allowing features that required extreme mathematical rescuing during harmonization to dominate predictive models—a phenomenon we characterize as the **"Harmonization-Dominance" Defect**.

Cross-cohort Alzheimer's disease (AD) blood transcriptomic prediction is sensitive to batch effects introduced during dataset harmonization. Standard pipelines treat batch correction and feature selection as independent steps, allowing features that required extreme mathematical rescuing during harmonization to dominate predictive models—a phenomenon we term the **"Harmonization-Dominance" Defect**.

Cross-cohort Alzheimer's disease (AD) blood transcriptomic prediction is sensitive to batch effects introduced during dataset harmonization. Standard pipelines treat batch correction and feature selection as independent steps, allowing features that required extreme mathematical rescuing during harmonization to dominate predictive models—a phenomenon we term the **"Harmonization-Dominance" Defect**.

Cross-cohort Alzheimer's disease (AD) blood transcriptomic prediction is sensitive to batch effects introduced during dataset harmonization. Standard pipelines treat batch correction and feature selection as independent steps, allowing features that required extreme mathematical rescuing during harmonization to dominate predictive models.

Cross-cohort Alzheimer's disease (AD) blood transcriptomic prediction is sensitive to batch effects introduced during dataset harmonization. Standard pipelines treat batch correction and feature selection as independent steps, allowing features that required extreme mathematical rescuing during harmonization to dominate predictive models.

Cross-cohort Alzheimer's disease (AD) blood transcriptomic prediction is sensitive to batch effects introduced during dataset harmonization. Standard pipelines treat batch correction and feature selection as independent steps, allowing features that required extreme mathematical rescuing during harmonization to dominate predictive models.

Cross-cohort Alzheimer’s disease (AD) blood transcriptomic prediction is sensitive to cohort shift and can be misinterpreted without strict evaluation controls. We present an open reproducible study on GEO cohorts GSE63060 and GSE63061 with three design principles: leakage-safe target holdout evaluation, consistent permutation-null reporting, and explicit biological feature ablations using open AMP-AD Agora nominated targets.

Neurodegenerative diseases share core transcriptomic programs — neuroinflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and proteostasis collapse — yet computational models are typically trained in disease-specific silos. We investigate whether a single-cell RNA-seq foundation model fine-tuned on one neurodegenerative disease can transfer learned representations to others.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) represents the most prevalent form of dementia worldwide, affecting millions of individuals and placing unprecedented burden on healthcare systems. Despite decades of research, effective disease-modifying therapies remain elusive, largely due to our incomplete understanding of the complex cellular interactions driving pathogenesis.