Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 3437

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.33, p 0.393). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 3436, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 3437
    19 Oct 2026, 19:49 UTC


    ABCD2

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionABCD2 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registeredeced62bb9d9eeec1

    discovery+0.33 p=0.393 n=9

    replication+0.16 p=0.685 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.33, p 0.393)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 3437: ABCD2 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.21 (p 0.393, n 18), 95% CI -0.28 to +0.62. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.23 (p 0.365, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: +0.28 (p 0.261, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range +0.13 to +0.38, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors +0.21 (p 0.393, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for ABCD2 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.