Several genes associated with the pathogenesis of AD (e.g. IL-22, OX40L and TSLP) and reported in the layer-specific AD transcriptomes [63] were not detected in the MADAD transcriptome, most likely due to low expression levels of cytokines on whole tissue microarrays, a known limitation of microarrays [24, 69], that cannot be overcome by the meta-analysis approach. Here, TSLP is linked to Alzheimer disease.