Gómez-Pascual, Alicia
Martirosyan, Araks
Hebestreit, Katja
Kottick, Andrew
Mighdoll, Michelle
Hanson-Smith, Victor
Mellina-Andreu, José Luis
Cisterna, Alejandro
Holt, Matthew G.
Belgard, Grant
Guelfi, Sebastian
Botía, Juan A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universidad de Murcia
Article History
Received: 22 February 2025
Revised: 1 December 2025
Accepted: 3 December 2025
First Online: 6 February 2026
Declarations
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: The authors have no competing interests to declare.
: The discovery cohort consisted of post-mortem human SNpc tissues from 27 donors collected from the Oregon Brain Bank at Oregon Health and Science University, a human tissue repository for brain research studies. Written informed consent was obtained for all samples at OHSU in accordance with local regulations. As the samples were subsequently transferred and processed at KU Leuven, their use was approved by the Ethics Committee Research UZ Leuven/KU Leuven in compliance with Belgian legislation and registered in the UZ Leuven Biobank under reference number S64182. Further details are available at . The replication dataset consisted of snRNA-seq data obtained from post-mortem human SNpc tissues dissected from seven samples provided by the Sepulveda brain bank. Written informed consent was obtained for all samples in accordance with local regulations.