Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 6412

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.26, p 0.502). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 6411, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 6412
    22 Oct 2026, 12:03 UTC

    PVALB

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionPVALB in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registeredabd01ec67f6a2d32

    discovery+0.26 p=0.502 n=9

    replication-0.17 p=0.671 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.26, p 0.502)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 6412: PVALB in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.02 (p 0.935, n 18), 95% CI -0.45 to +0.48. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.05 (p 0.840, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.01 (p 0.956, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.12 to +0.13, sign flips 6; without severely affected donors +0.02 (p 0.935, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for PVALB in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.