Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 8964

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no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.49, p 0.178). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 8963, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 8964
    24 Oct 2026, 19:51 UTC

    TRAF2

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionTRAF2 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registeredb7cac96a87dba176

    discovery-0.49 p=0.178 n=9

    replication-0.39 p=0.299 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho -0.49, p 0.178)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 8964: TRAF2 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.40 (p 0.097, n 18), 95% CI -0.73 to +0.08. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.44 (p 0.067, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.67 (p 0.0022, n 18). not the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.51 to -0.33, sign flips 0; without severely affected donors -0.40 (p 0.097, n 18). robust.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for TRAF2 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.