highly significantP < 0.001
If corrected for age, the NfL increase in ataxic SCA3 subjects remained highly significant in both cohort #1 ( F (1,147) = 406.54, P < 0.001; based on a linear model with the factors group, age and their interaction, R 2 = 0.82; Fig 1 C) and cohort #2 ( F (1,70) = 169.49, P < 0.001, R 2 = 0.79; Fig 1 D).