Nevertheless, by intersecting age‐related TE increases with the most increased TE transcripts in large group comparisons of cognitive function, pathology and dementia, we found that some age‐related TE transcripts overlapped with those previously linked with tau pathology (Guo et al., 2018; Sun et al., 2018), whereas some (particularly from LINEs and LTRs) were more associated with brain aging/cognitive decline and disease. This evidence concerns the gene MAPT and dementia.