Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 3480

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.45, p 0.222). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 3479, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 3480
    19 Oct 2026, 20:46 UTC


    KY

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionKY in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registereda047de7b92469616

    discovery-0.45 p=0.222 n=9

    replication-0.51 p=0.163 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.45, p 0.222)

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

    NO EFFECT

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receipt 3480: KY in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.50 (p 0.035, n 18), 95% CI -0.78 to -0.04. the interval excludes zero: something may be there, smaller than a half can see.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.47 (p 0.049, n 18). holds up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.52 (p 0.027, n 18). not the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.68 to -0.44, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.50 (p 0.035, n 18). robust.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for KY in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.