Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 7445

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.34, p 0.378). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 7444, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 7445
    23 Oct 2026, 10:19 UTC

    GOLGA8T

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionGOLGA8T in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registeredd4dba43c8d65e571

    discovery+0.34 p=0.378 n=9

    replication-0.18 p=0.635 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.34, p 0.378)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 7445: GOLGA8T in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.14 (p 0.585, n 18), 95% CI -0.57 to +0.35. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.17 (p 0.504, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.16 (p 0.515, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.26 to -0.02, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.14 (p 0.585, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for GOLGA8T in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.