Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 6774

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no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.26, p 0.502). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 6773, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 6774
    22 Oct 2026, 20:13 UTC


    NEIL2

    dopamine neurons, braak


    predictionNEIL2 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered4c9e9bfa47537b3b

    discovery-0.26 p=0.502 n=9

    replication-0.81 p=0.0075 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign


    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.26, p 0.502)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 6774: NEIL2 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.54 (p 0.020, n 18), 95% CI -0.81 to -0.10. the interval excludes zero: something may be there, smaller than a half can see.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.59 (p 0.0096, n 18). holds up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.66 (p 0.0031, n 18). not the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.65 to -0.48, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.54 (p 0.020, n 18). robust.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for NEIL2 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.