Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 4463

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.63, p 0.069). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 4462, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 4463
    20 Oct 2026, 18:04 UTC

    EPHA4

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionEPHA4 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered83b75bbc1a1d2e74

    discovery+0.63 p=0.069 n=9

    replication+0.52 p=0.153 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.63, p 0.069)

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

    NO EFFECT

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receipt 4463: EPHA4 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.78 (p 1.3e-4, n 18), 95% CI +0.50 to +0.91. the interval excludes zero: something may be there, smaller than a half can see.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.69 (p 0.0014, n 18). holds up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: +0.72 (p 8.2e-4, n 18). not the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range +0.76 to +0.85, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors +0.78 (p 1.3e-4, n 18). robust.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for EPHA4 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.