Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 2413

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.12, p 0.749). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 2412, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 2413
    18 Oct 2026, 21:30 UTC


    ZNF285

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionZNF285 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered3b5e9f326cf462ee

    discovery-0.12 p=0.749 n=9

    replication-0.29 p=0.456 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.12, p 0.749)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 2413: ZNF285 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.20 (p 0.424, n 18), 95% CI -0.61 to +0.29. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.26 (p 0.298, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.27 (p 0.273, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.31 to -0.10, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.20 (p 0.424, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for ZNF285 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.