Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 16172

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.07, p 0.859). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 16171, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 16172
    31 Oct 2026, 11:16 UTC


    DACT2

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionDACT2 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered8399cedacabbcf3a

    discovery-0.07 p=0.859 n=9

    replication-0.28 p=0.472 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.07, p 0.859)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 16172: DACT2 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.17 (p 0.509, n 18), 95% CI -0.59 to +0.33. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.14 (p 0.579, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.23 (p 0.360, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.31 to -0.06, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.17 (p 0.509, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for DACT2 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.