Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 10999

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.21, p 0.591). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 10998, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 10999
    26 Oct 2026, 16:18 UTC


    ABTB2

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionABTB2 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered1b4616c2754d3c3f

    discovery-0.21 p=0.591 n=9

    replication-0.18 p=0.646 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.21, p 0.591)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 10999: ABTB2 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.17 (p 0.493, n 18), 95% CI -0.59 to +0.32. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.15 (p 0.561, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.24 (p 0.332, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.30 to -0.06, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.17 (p 0.493, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for ABTB2 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.