Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 11686

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no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.23, p 0.545). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 11685, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 11686
    27 Oct 2026, 07:19 UTC


    MS4A6A

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionMS4A6A in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered4af5c8f5de26547c

    discovery-0.23 p=0.545 n=9

    replication+0.46 p=0.209 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.23, p 0.545)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 11686: MS4A6A in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.08 (p 0.761, n 18), 95% CI -0.40 to +0.53. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.21 (p 0.408, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: +0.09 (p 0.722, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.03 to +0.21, sign flips 2; without severely affected donors +0.08 (p 0.761, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for MS4A6A in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.