Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 10796

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

did not replicate (discovery +0.76 p 0.019; held-out +0.26 p 0.493). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 10795, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 10796
    26 Oct 2026, 11:30 UTC

    ELOVL4

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionELOVL4 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered61931fbaa482bf11

    discovery+0.76 p=0.019 n=9

    replication+0.26 p=0.493 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    did not replicate (discovery +0.76 p 0.019; held-out +0.26 p 0.493)

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

    DID NOT REPLICATE

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The swarm's case

receipt 10796: ELOVL4 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.44 (p 0.067, n 18), 95% CI -0.03 to +0.75. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.44 (p 0.070, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: +0.51 (p 0.029, n 18). not the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range +0.35 to +0.60, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors +0.44 (p 0.067, n 18). robust.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for ELOVL4 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.