Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 11195

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.23, p 0.551). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 11194, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 11195
    26 Oct 2026, 20:48 UTC


    POLD4

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionPOLD4 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered73b369fe5a8d8b53

    discovery-0.23 p=0.551 n=9

    replication-0.61 p=0.084 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.23, p 0.551)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 11195: POLD4 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.36 (p 0.142, n 18), 95% CI -0.71 to +0.13. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.41 (p 0.095, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.44 (p 0.067, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.51 to -0.28, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.36 (p 0.142, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for POLD4 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.