Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 11079

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.44, p 0.240). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 11078, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 11079
    26 Oct 2026, 18:03 UTC


    NALCN

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionNALCN in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registerede79d87ff45127298

    discovery+0.44 p=0.240 n=9

    replication+0.14 p=0.716 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.44, p 0.240)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 11079: NALCN in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.28 (p 0.258, n 18), 95% CI -0.21 to +0.66. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.26 (p 0.289, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: +0.19 (p 0.455, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range +0.19 to +0.43, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors +0.28 (p 0.258, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for NALCN in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.