As expected, we found measured cell counts, CTP-scores, and low-grade chronic inflammation-related CRP-scores to be highly positively correlated with blood protein inflammatory markers, whereas MOMENT-MPS (derived from genome-wide significant results of a meta-analysis of ALS, AD and PD) showed no statistically significant correlations (Additional file 1: Figure S19), suggesting these MPS are not strongly confounded by CTP. Here, CRP is linked to Parkinson disease.