Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 11375

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.08, p 0.838). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 11374, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 11375
    27 Oct 2026, 01:03 UTC

    DEFA4

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionDEFA4 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered42ad037da2b66cb6

    discovery+0.08 p=0.838 n=9

    replication+0.10 p=0.796 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.08, p 0.838)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 11375: DEFA4 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.09 (p 0.728, n 18), 95% CI -0.40 to +0.53. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.15 (p 0.544, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.13 (p 0.615, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.02 to +0.23, sign flips 1; without severely affected donors +0.09 (p 0.728, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for DEFA4 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.