Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 11785

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no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.01, p 0.982). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 11784, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 11785
    27 Oct 2026, 09:31 UTC


    CDX2

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionCDX2 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered514e8d82e7f19d55

    discovery+0.01 p=0.982 n=9

    replication-0.41 p=0.277 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.01, p 0.982)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 11785: CDX2 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.28 (p 0.265, n 18), 95% CI -0.66 to +0.22. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.22 (p 0.374, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.21 (p 0.398, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.44 to -0.19, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.28 (p 0.265, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for CDX2 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.