Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 4728

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.04, p 0.924). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 4727, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 4728
    21 Oct 2026, 00:08 UTC

    MERTK

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionMERTK in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registeredf89a2f8913f47555

    discovery-0.04 p=0.924 n=9

    replication+0.37 p=0.329 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.04, p 0.924)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 4728: MERTK in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.12 (p 0.640, n 18), 95% CI -0.37 to +0.55. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.10 (p 0.690, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.00 (p 0.997, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range +0.03 to +0.24, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors +0.12 (p 0.640, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for MERTK in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.