Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 6242

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.36, p 0.348). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 6241, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 6242
    22 Oct 2026, 08:20 UTC


    UBQLN2

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionUBQLN2 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registeredc73eef6dfca83c65

    discovery+0.36 p=0.348 n=9

    replication+0.17 p=0.663 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.36, p 0.348)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 6242: UBQLN2 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.32 (p 0.198, n 18), 95% CI -0.17 to +0.68. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.33 (p 0.182, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: +0.31 (p 0.214, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range +0.23 to +0.52, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors +0.32 (p 0.198, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for UBQLN2 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.