Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 5373

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no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.27, p 0.484). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 5372, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 5373
    21 Oct 2026, 13:50 UTC

    MFSD8

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionMFSD8 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered5b582c34949634b1

    discovery-0.27 p=0.484 n=9

    replication+0.27 p=0.474 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.27, p 0.484)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 5373: MFSD8 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.14 (p 0.585, n 18), 95% CI -0.35 to +0.57. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.26 (p 0.302, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: +0.32 (p 0.191, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range +0.01 to +0.21, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors +0.14 (p 0.585, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for MFSD8 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.