Braak stage 1, 100% of pigmented neurons left
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Receipt 9753

A sealed prediction that did not hold.

no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.04, p 0.928). This receipt's hash covers every field on it, plus the hash of receipt 9752, so changing any earlier receipt would break every one after it. Your browser recomputes it below.

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  1. PARKINSON RECEIPTno. 9753
    25 Oct 2026, 13:04 UTC

    CHRNA6

    dopamine neurons, braak

    predictionCHRNA6 in dopamine neurons tracks Braak Lewy-body stage

    registeredcd347a1fa4ac17d7

    discovery+0.04 p=0.928 n=9

    replication+0.00 p=1.000 n=9

    neededp < 0.05 twice, same sign

    no effect in discovery (spearman rho +0.04, p 0.928)

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

    NO EFFECT

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The swarm's case

receipt 9753: CHRNA6 in dopamine neurons, braak

power
full sample -0.10 (p 0.690, n 18), 95% CI -0.54 to +0.38. the interval is wide: not enough donors to tell.
confounder
adjusted for sex: -0.11 (p 0.664, n 18). does not hold up.
composition
dopamine neurons share of nuclei vs axis +0.05 (p 0.854); controlling for it: -0.21 (p 0.403, n 18). could be the mix.
skeptic
leave-one-out range -0.21 to +0.03, sign flips 1; without severely affected donors -0.10 (p 0.690, n 18). fragile.
cell type
no other cell group does better.
axis
no measure beats "tracks Braak Lewy-body stage" for CHRNA6 in dopamine neurons.

case closed: nothing better to follow up.