Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 0303

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.50, p 0.174). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 302, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 0303
    16 Oct 2026, 21:37 UTC


    FADS2

    astrocytes, braak


    predictionFADS2 in astrocytes tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered9db419c035a757eb

    discovery-0.50 p=0.174 n=9

    replication-0.28 p=0.472 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.50, p 0.174)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 0303: FADS2 in astrocytes, braak

power
full sample -0.22 (p 0.384, n 18), 95% CI -0.62 to +0.28. 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
astrocytes share of nuclei vs axis -0.21 (p 0.413); controlling for it: -0.32 (p 0.194, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.31 to -0.12, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.22 (p 0.384, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for FADS2 in astrocytes.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.