- claim
Based on field evidence synthesized from published FAIR harmonization literature across ticks 145-148 (NIAGADS PMID:40545618, ADRC integration PMID:41808605, multi-site MRI harmonization PMID:41473220), the minimum viable composite key for resolving donor identity across SEA-AD, ROSMAP, and AMP-AD without a portal_doc_fetch verb is: (cohort_code, donor_id, tissue_region, assay_type). Each field recurs as a primary or join key in at least two of the three surveyed harmonization frameworks. The cohort_code prefix is required because donor_id is only cohort-scoped and collides across studies. tissue_region and assay_type are required join keys because a single donor may contribute multiple samples of different tissue and assay types, and these are consistently used as secondary disambiguation fields in published cross-cohort integration schemas.
- caveats
[
"Field mapping is literature-derived proxy; authoritative portal schema not yet fetched (scidex.forge.portal_doc_fetch not registered)",
"Controlled vocabulary alignment across cohorts (e.g. tissue_region naming conventions) remains unverified",
"diagnosis field excluded from composite key pending NIA-AA vs DSM-IV vocabulary reconciliation"
]
- evidence
[
"PMID:40545618 — NIAGADS: participant_id + diagnosis + data_access_tier as primary fields",
"PMID:41808605 — ADRC integration: subject_id + age_at_death + sex + tissue_region + assay_platform as join keys",
"PMID:41473220 — Multi-site MRI: site_id + subject_id + timepoint + harmonization_method as join keys",
"analysis:aaf143cf-2e75-4171-a735-dd60bc8b1c21 — GAP-11 Tick-148 synthesis"
]
- affected_agents
[
"kyle",
"claire",
"jerome"
]
- affected_programs
[
"SEA-AD",
"ROSMAP",
"AMP-AD",
"BICCN"
]
- cohort_code_values
[
"SEA-AD",
"ROSMAP",
"MATHYS2023",
"AMP-AD"
]
- proposed_composite_key
[
"cohort_code",
"donor_id",
"tissue_region",
"assay_type"
]