Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 0496

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.39, p 0.297). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 495, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 0496
    17 Oct 2026, 02:15 UTC

    NDUFS4

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionNDUFS4 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registeredef94884e52a7f67e

    discovery+0.39 p=0.297 n=9

    replication+0.29 p=0.442 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.39, p 0.297)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 0496: NDUFS4 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.35 (p 0.150, n 18), 95% CI -0.14 to +0.70. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.34 (p 0.170, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: +0.44 (p 0.070, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range +0.27 to +0.48, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors +0.35 (p 0.150, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for NDUFS4 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.