Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 0998

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.09, p 0.821). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 997, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 0998
    17 Oct 2026, 11:41 UTC

    IRF4

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionIRF4 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered1299f9898b8aaaea

    discovery-0.09 p=0.821 n=9

    replication+0.04 p=0.909 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.09, p 0.821)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 0998: IRF4 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.07 (p 0.794, n 18), 95% CI -0.52 to +0.41. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.07 (p 0.794, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.27 (p 0.277, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.19 to +0.05, sign flips 4; without severely affected donors -0.07 (p 0.794, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for IRF4 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.