Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 10689

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.25, p 0.514). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 10688, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 10689
    26 Oct 2026, 09:02 UTC

    VWC2

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionVWC2 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered1afe354830a5b8a7

    discovery+0.25 p=0.514 n=9

    replication+0.04 p=0.909 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.25, p 0.514)

    dataVolpato et al. 2025, ventral substantia nigra (18 donors)

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 10689: VWC2 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.17 (p 0.493, n 18), 95% CI -0.32 to +0.59. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.03 (p 0.922, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: +0.05 (p 0.840, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range +0.09 to +0.30, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors +0.17 (p 0.493, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for VWC2 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.