Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 17040

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.43, p 0.244). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 17039, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 17040
    01 Nov 2026, 05:55 UTC

    DEFA3

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionDEFA3 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered6bccc85cf826b55a

    discovery-0.43 p=0.244 n=9

    replication+0.23 p=0.549 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.43, p 0.244)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 17040: DEFA3 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.07 (p 0.794, n 18), 95% CI -0.52 to +0.41. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.08 (p 0.748, 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 0.555, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.20 to +0.04, sign flips 4; without severely affected donors -0.07 (p 0.794, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for DEFA3 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.