Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 11279

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.20, p 0.602). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 11278, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 11279
    26 Oct 2026, 22:50 UTC


    ITM2C

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionITM2C in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered20a4196e1344f3a8

    discovery+0.20 p=0.602 n=9

    replication-0.47 p=0.197 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.20, p 0.602)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 11279: ITM2C in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.18 (p 0.471, n 18), 95% CI -0.60 to +0.31. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.13 (p 0.609, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.15 (p 0.544, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.33 to -0.09, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.18 (p 0.471, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for ITM2C in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.