Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 4493

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.37, p 0.329). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 4492, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 4493
    20 Oct 2026, 18:48 UTC

    BCL7C

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionBCL7C in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered6fb669b34cc8f50b

    discovery-0.37 p=0.329 n=9

    replication-0.61 p=0.083 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.37, p 0.329)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 4493: BCL7C in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.35 (p 0.159, n 18), 95% CI -0.70 to +0.14. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.34 (p 0.164, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.37 (p 0.135, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.45 to -0.25, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.35 (p 0.159, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for BCL7C in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.