Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 16785

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no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.29, p 0.442). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 16784, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 16785
    01 Nov 2026, 01:00 UTC


    DUSP18

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionDUSP18 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registeredfa20befe70c22201

    discovery-0.29 p=0.442 n=9

    replication-0.50 p=0.173 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.29, p 0.442)

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

    NO EFFECT

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receipt 16785: DUSP18 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.32 (p 0.198, n 18), 95% CI -0.68 to +0.17. 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: -0.26 (p 0.302, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.51 to -0.22, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.32 (p 0.198, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for DUSP18 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.