Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 4952

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.30, p 0.436). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 4951, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 4952
    21 Oct 2026, 04:43 UTC

    HSD17B4

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionHSD17B4 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registeredd4663ea425b1fa1d

    discovery+0.30 p=0.436 n=9

    replication+0.55 p=0.122 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.30, p 0.436)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 4952: HSD17B4 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.33 (p 0.188, n 18), 95% CI -0.17 to +0.69. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.33 (p 0.188, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: +0.39 (p 0.109, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range +0.24 to +0.49, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors +0.33 (p 0.188, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for HSD17B4 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.