Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 3586

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.40, p 0.281). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 3585, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 3586
    19 Oct 2026, 23:09 UTC


    LCN12

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionLCN12 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered7ed28085315456a0

    discovery-0.40 p=0.281 n=9

    replication-0.37 p=0.329 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.40, p 0.281)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 3586: LCN12 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.43 (p 0.074, n 18), 95% CI -0.75 to +0.04. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.47 (p 0.051, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.57 (p 0.014, n 18). not the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.50 to -0.36, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.43 (p 0.074, n 18). robust.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for LCN12 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.