Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 9092

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.49, p 0.177). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 9091, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 9092
    24 Oct 2026, 22:50 UTC


    PEMT

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionPEMT in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registeredc034c9200f942e00

    discovery-0.49 p=0.177 n=9

    replication-0.56 p=0.116 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.49, p 0.177)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 9092: PEMT in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.43 (p 0.079, n 18), 95% CI -0.74 to +0.05. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.46 (p 0.057, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.62 (p 0.0064, n 18). not the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.52 to -0.35, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.43 (p 0.079, n 18). robust.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for PEMT in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.