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Nearly 500 participants have 5 or more years of linked data, with genomic profiles available for 93%.</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>DISCUSSION</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This POC demonstrates the feasibility of integrating clinical, genomic, and RWD across ADRCs, offering a scalable model for broader implementation.</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>","journal":"Alzheimer's &amp; Dementia","year":2026,"id":610513,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":500456,"name":"Jessica E. 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