Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 0884

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.29, p 0.457). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 883, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 0884
    17 Oct 2026, 08:56 UTC


    FAHD2A

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionFAHD2A in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered5125ed8259ee879a

    discovery+0.29 p=0.457 n=9

    replication-0.30 p=0.428 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.29, p 0.457)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 0884: FAHD2A in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.06 (p 0.807, n 18), 95% CI -0.51 to +0.42. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.03 (p 0.922, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.07 (p 0.774, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.22 to +0.07, sign flips 2; without severely affected donors -0.06 (p 0.807, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for FAHD2A in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.