Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 1926

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.65, p 0.058). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 1925, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 1926
    18 Oct 2026, 09:48 UTC

    MTNR1B

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionMTNR1B in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered7f0044146338510f

    discovery-0.65 p=0.058 n=9

    replication-0.06 p=0.873 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.65, p 0.058)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 1926: MTNR1B in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.33 (p 0.179, n 18), 95% CI -0.69 to +0.16. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.24 (p 0.328, 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 -0.50 to -0.25, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.33 (p 0.179, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for MTNR1B in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.