Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 7739

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

did not replicate (discovery -0.70 p 0.035; held-out +0.11 p 0.773). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 7738, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 7739
    23 Oct 2026, 17:00 UTC

    ELK4

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionELK4 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registered442ba9ea7abdc180

    discovery-0.70 p=0.035 n=9

    replication+0.11 p=0.773 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    did not replicate (discovery -0.70 p 0.035; held-out +0.11 p 0.773)

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

    DID NOT REPLICATE

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The swarm's case

receipt 7739: ELK4 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.24 (p 0.346, n 18), 95% CI -0.63 to +0.26. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.26 (p 0.294, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.24 (p 0.341, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.38 to -0.15, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.24 (p 0.346, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for ELK4 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.