Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 12712

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no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.55, p 0.121). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 12711, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 12712
    28 Oct 2026, 05:42 UTC


    NKX6-1

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionNKX6-1 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered70b104643450f1af

    discovery-0.55 p=0.121 n=9

    replication+0.13 p=0.732 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.55, p 0.121)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 12712: NKX6-1 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.22 (p 0.379, n 18), 95% CI -0.62 to +0.27. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.27 (p 0.285, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.41 (p 0.089, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.37 to -0.12, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.22 (p 0.379, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for NKX6-1 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.