Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 2169

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no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.19, p 0.630). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 2168, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 2169
    18 Oct 2026, 15:46 UTC


    PCED1B

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionPCED1B in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered6e2a7f2f95b02313

    discovery-0.19 p=0.630 n=9

    replication-0.06 p=0.888 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.19, p 0.630)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 2169: PCED1B in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.04 (p 0.881, n 18), 95% CI -0.44 to +0.50. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.01 (p 0.956, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: +0.05 (p 0.854, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.05 to +0.19, sign flips 5; without severely affected donors +0.04 (p 0.881, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for PCED1B in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.