Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 6443

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no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.18, p 0.646). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 6442, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 6443
    22 Oct 2026, 12:44 UTC

    RAB38

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionRAB38 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered337a1a61bcf332ec

    discovery+0.18 p=0.646 n=9

    replication+0.74 p=0.024 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.18, p 0.646)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 6443: RAB38 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample +0.43 (p 0.079, n 18), 95% CI -0.05 to +0.74. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: +0.45 (p 0.063, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: +0.48 (p 0.042, n 18). not the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range +0.34 to +0.62, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors +0.43 (p 0.079, n 18). robust.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for RAB38 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.