Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 15461

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no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.32, p 0.400). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 15460, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 15461
    30 Oct 2026, 20:10 UTC


    MTCL1

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionMTCL1 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered22161bec7784c35b

    discovery-0.32 p=0.400 n=9

    replication-0.61 p=0.078 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.32, p 0.400)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 15461: MTCL1 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.39 (p 0.111, n 18), 95% CI -0.72 to +0.10. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.36 (p 0.140, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.47 (p 0.051, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.54 to -0.31, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.39 (p 0.111, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for MTCL1 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.