Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 6428

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.23, p 0.553). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 6427, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 6428
    22 Oct 2026, 12:25 UTC

    METTL14

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionMETTL14 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registeredd6b8b9f2a44aa138

    discovery+0.23 p=0.553 n=9

    replication+0.00 p=1.000 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.23, p 0.553)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 6428: METTL14 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.15 (p 0.549, n 18), 95% CI -0.58 to +0.34. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.17 (p 0.493, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.13 (p 0.615, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.30 to -0.04, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.15 (p 0.549, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for METTL14 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.