Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 3792

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.47, p 0.204). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 3791, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 3792
    20 Oct 2026, 03:06 UTC


    AFG3L2

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionAFG3L2 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registeredd333d6ad6f2db7e8

    discovery-0.47 p=0.204 n=9

    replication-0.18 p=0.646 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.47, p 0.204)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 3792: AFG3L2 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.11 (p 0.677, n 18), 95% CI -0.55 to +0.38. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.12 (p 0.646, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.05 (p 0.834, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.27 to -0.02, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.11 (p 0.677, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for AFG3L2 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.