Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 17222

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.22, p 0.576). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 17221, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 17222
    01 Nov 2026, 09:55 UTC


    ARFGEF2

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionARFGEF2 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registeredb7f5db0efe125ce4

    discovery-0.22 p=0.576 n=9

    replication+0.11 p=0.784 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.22, p 0.576)

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

    NO EFFECT

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receipt 17222: ARFGEF2 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.15 (p 0.549, n 18), 95% CI -0.58 to +0.34. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.31 (p 0.211, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.34 (p 0.170, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.26 to -0.04, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.15 (p 0.549, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for ARFGEF2 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.