Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 4116

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.63, p 0.067). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 4115, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 4116
    20 Oct 2026, 10:13 UTC


    ALS2

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionALS2 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered89056da272839eae

    discovery+0.63 p=0.067 n=9

    replication+0.17 p=0.656 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.63, p 0.067)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 4116: ALS2 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.39 (p 0.107, n 18), 95% CI -0.09 to +0.73. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.42 (p 0.084, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: +0.66 (p 0.0031, n 18). not the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range +0.31 to +0.54, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors +0.39 (p 0.107, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for ALS2 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.