Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 2249

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.62, p 0.078). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 2248, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 2249
    18 Oct 2026, 17:41 UTC


    PDGFRB

    astrocytes, braak


    predictionPDGFRB in astrocytes tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered08b3e5b9066f6b7f

    discovery+0.62 p=0.078 n=9

    replication+0.13 p=0.732 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.62, p 0.078)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 2249: PDGFRB in astrocytes, braak

power
full sample +0.35 (p 0.150, n 18), 95% CI -0.14 to +0.70. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.35 (p 0.150, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
astrocytes share of nuclei vs axis -0.21 (p 0.413); controlling for it: +0.32 (p 0.201, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range +0.25 to +0.48, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors +0.35 (p 0.150, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for PDGFRB in astrocytes.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.