Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 14118

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.66, p 0.053). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 14117, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 14118
    29 Oct 2026, 13:12 UTC


    ETHE1

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionETHE1 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registeredfc8f14ae65c6d11d

    discovery-0.66 p=0.053 n=9

    replication+0.54 p=0.130 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.66, p 0.053)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 14118: ETHE1 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.08 (p 0.761, n 18), 95% CI -0.53 to +0.40. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.11 (p 0.677, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.15 (p 0.549, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.24 to +0.02, sign flips 1; without severely affected donors -0.08 (p 0.761, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for ETHE1 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.