Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 3035

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.15, p 0.699). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 3034, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 3035
    19 Oct 2026, 10:54 UTC

    ZIC4

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionZIC4 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered2d79f3ccfcee9b50

    discovery-0.15 p=0.699 n=9

    replication+0.17 p=0.663 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.15, p 0.699)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 3035: ZIC4 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.11 (p 0.652, n 18), 95% CI -0.55 to +0.37. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.10 (p 0.696, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.11 (p 0.671, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.25 to -0.01, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.11 (p 0.652, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for ZIC4 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.