Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 1939

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no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.11, p 0.779). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 1938, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 1939
    18 Oct 2026, 10:07 UTC


    FAM171A1

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionFAM171A1 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered1eb546abf1e1f070

    discovery+0.11 p=0.779 n=9

    replication-0.90 p=0.0011 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.11, p 0.779)

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

    NO EFFECT

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receipt 1939: FAM171A1 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.57 (p 0.014, n 18), 95% CI -0.82 to -0.14. the interval excludes zero: something may be there, smaller than a half can see.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.60 (p 0.0089, n 18). holds up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.53 (p 0.023, n 18). not the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.74 to -0.51, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.57 (p 0.014, n 18). robust.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for FAM171A1 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.