Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 4721

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.21, p 0.586). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 4720, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 4721
    20 Oct 2026, 23:59 UTC


    CLDN12

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionCLDN12 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registeredef2f607b1f34f38a

    discovery+0.21 p=0.586 n=9

    replication+0.37 p=0.321 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.21, p 0.586)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 4721: CLDN12 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.45 (p 0.062, n 18), 95% CI -0.02 to +0.76. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.48 (p 0.044, n 18). holds up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: +0.41 (p 0.095, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range +0.39 to +0.56, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors +0.45 (p 0.062, n 18). robust.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for CLDN12 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.