Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 5216

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.04, p 0.927). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 5215, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 5216
    21 Oct 2026, 10:32 UTC


    GPBAR1

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionGPBAR1 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registereda15201e41eb0968c

    discovery+0.04 p=0.927 n=9

    replication-0.68 p=0.042 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.04, p 0.927)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 5216: GPBAR1 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.33 (p 0.176, n 18), 95% CI -0.69 to +0.16. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.32 (p 0.201, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.35 (p 0.150, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.48 to -0.25, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.33 (p 0.176, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for GPBAR1 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.