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#include "../src/bit_vector.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define VEC_SIZE    64

#define err_print(format, ...)  \
    fprintf(stderr, "[%d:%s:%d]" format, errno, strerror(errno), __LINE__, ##__VA_ARGS__)

int
main(void)
{
    int fd;
    uint64_t read_offset = 0;
    bit_vector_t *array_vec, *read_vec;
    array_vec = read_vec = NULL;

    array_vec = bit_vector_create(BIT_VECTOR_TYPE_ARRAY, VEC_SIZE);
    if (!array_vec) {
        err_print("create failed\n");
        return errno;
    }

    printf("init\n");
    bit_vector_print(array_vec);

    bit_vector_set(array_vec, 0);
    bit_vector_set(array_vec, 2);
    bit_vector_set(array_vec, 10);
    bit_vector_set(array_vec, 12);
    bit_vector_set(array_vec, 63);

    printf("set 5 entries\n");
    bit_vector_print(array_vec);

    bit_vector_clear(array_vec, 0);
    bit_vector_clear(array_vec, 63);

    printf("clear 2 entries\n");
    bit_vector_print(array_vec);

    bit_vector_resize(array_vec, 8);
    printf("resize\n");
    bit_vector_print(array_vec);
    printf("Index 2: %d\n", bit_vector_get(array_vec, 2));

    fd = open("array_test", O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC | O_CREAT, 0644);
    if (fd == -1) {
        err_print("open failed {write}\n");
        return errno;
    }
    bit_vector_file_output(array_vec, fd, 0);
    close(fd);

    fd = open("array_test", O_RDONLY);
    if (fd == -1) {
        err_print("open failed {read}\n");
        return errno;
    }
    read_vec = bit_vector_file_input(fd, &read_offset);
    close(fd);

    printf("read_vec\n");
    bit_vector_print(read_vec);

    printf("array_vec\n");
    bit_vector_print(array_vec);

    bit_vector_free(read_vec);
    bit_vector_free(array_vec);
    return 0;
}


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Greetings from Mailjet

						Developer Evangelist / Beard - tsims@mailjet.com / @4thfloor_monkey

Who are Mailjet?

From the ground up email solution

Transactional Email

Newsletter campaigns

Analytics

A nice RESTful API

Why Mailjet?

Deliverabilty

One API for all the features

Price

Flexibility

Integrates with lots of cool stuff via:

(If you need it...)

Getting started with the API

Simple to add contacts

curl -X POST --user "$MJ_APIKEY_PUBLIC:$MJ_APIKEY_PRIVATE" \
https://api.mailjet.com/v3/REST/contact \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"Email":"johnsmith@example.com"}'

Simple sending

curl -X POST --user "$MJ_APIKEY_PUBLIC:$MJ_APIKEY_PRIVATE" \
    https://api.mailjet.com/v3/send/message \
    -F from= "Count Mailjet >count.mailjet@example.com>" \
    -F to=mr.mailjet@example.com \
    -F subject='Hello World!' \
    -F text='Greetings from Mailjet.'

Parse API

curl -X POST --user "$MJ_APIKEY_PUBLIC:$MJ_APIKEY_PRIVATE" \
        http://api.mailjet.com/v3/REST/parseroute \
        -d '{"URL":"http://your-domain/webhook"}' \
        -H "Content-Type: application/json"

 - Emails are parsed and you can have all the fun

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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba breaks a new sales record.
Alibaba announced a new milestone in the history o the Chinese e-commerce giant. Joe Tsai, Executive Vice Chairman of the Alibaba Group said in a blog post: "Today, with 10 days remaining in our fiscal year ending March 2016, Alibaba's China retail marketplace platforms surpassed RMB 3 trillion in GMV (Gross Merchandise Value). That is about 476 billion in U.S. dollars and, if the platforms we operate were a province, we would rank as the 6th largest provincial economy in China."
Alibaba tripled its GMV from 2012 to 2016. "The 3 trillion milestone also means that as Alibaba achieves unprecedented scale, we have a responsibility for how economic growth is achieved. Growth is meaningless unless it is sustainable. Thus, we have turned our focus to quality growth and broadening domestic consumption," adds Tsai.
Tsai calls the 3 trillion milestone a gas stop, recognizing the achievement but look forward to the future.
Walmart's fiscal year revenue was about $486 billion. Alibaba might beat that. The company has 10 more days left in its fiscal year.
Alibaba's Chairman Jack Ma sat down with Mark Zuckerberg last week to talk about virtual reality and other innovations that will shape the future.


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Idaho Supreme Court Rules That Gain from Sale of LLC Interest is Not Idaho Income
Whether or not two companies are engaged in a unitary business is based on particular facts and circumstances, and the Idaho Supreme Court disagreed with a prior Tax Commission decision that a taxpayer and the company it sold were unitary. The court instead held that the taxpayer's gain from its sale of the company generated nonbusiness income not taxable in Idaho.
In our April 2018 SALT Newsletter, we wrote an article summarizing an Idaho Tax Commission ruling that the gain from an S-corporation's sale of its 78.54 interest in an LLC was classified as business income, and therefore, apportionable to Idaho. Last year, an Idaho District Court reversed that decision,[1] and on May 22, 2020, the Idaho Supreme Court issued an opinion upholding the District Court's decision in favor of the taxpayer.[2]
In 1993, "Owner" formed "Taxpayer," a manufacturer and seller of tactical and combat gear incorporated and commercially domiciled in Virginia. Taxpayer is an S-corporation and conducted business from 1993-2003. In 2004, Taxpayer contributed the assets of the business to "LLC," a Virginia limited liability company treated as a partnership for federal and Idaho income tax purposes, in exchange for a 78.54 percent membership interest. Following the transaction, Owner became a "high level executive" but did not manage the day to day operations of LLC.
In 2004, LLC created a physical presence in Idaho resulting in nexus, and thus filed an Idaho income tax return. For tax years 2004-2009, LLC passed through its income to Taxpayer who paid Idaho tax on behalf of Owner. Taxpayer treated the pass-through Idaho income from LLC as business income.
In 2010, Taxpayer sold its LLC membership interest for a net gain of approximately $120 million. Taxpayer classified its gain as nonbusiness income on its Idaho income tax return, which resulted in the exclusion of the gain from Idaho taxable income. Upon audit, the state reclassified Taxpayer's gain as business income and the Tax Commission agreed.
The Tax Commission treated the gain as business income because it found that Taxpayer's interest in LLC served an operational function and was "an integral, functional, or operative component" to the Taxpayer's business. Specifically, the Tax Commission relied on several facts. First, the ownership interest in LLC was not just a component of Taxpayer's business, it was the business. Taxpayer operated the business directly until Owner required Taxpayer to contribute the business to LLC in exchange for a controlling interest in LLC. Second, Owner was President and CEO of both Taxpayer and LLC and remained so throughout the companies' business life. Finally, income derived from Taxpayer's ownership interest in LLC drove Taxpayer's net income, making the ownership more than a passive investment.
Looking at this set of facts, the Idaho Supreme Court determined that Taxpayer was merely a passive investor and that Taxpayer and LLC were not conducting a unitary business. Despite owning a 78.54% interest in LLC, Taxpayer had no actual control over the day to day operations of LLC. Even though Owner was a "high level executive" of LLC, he was only "one voice of a six-member management team." LLC's officers and employees were not involved with Taxpayer, which was merely a holding company. Other than its connection with Owner, the only other connection between Taxpayer and LLC was that they shared the same accounting and legal firms.
In a seven-year span, the only transactions involving or between Taxpayer and LLC were the transfer of the business from Taxpayer to LLC in 2003, the receipt of LLC income by Taxpayer, and Taxpayer's 2010 sale of its interest in LLC. The Idaho Supreme Court concluded that these facts show a high-level separation of the companies indicative of independence rather than the interdependence required for a unitary business.
Since the Idaho Supreme Court ruled that Taxpayer's gain from the sale of its interest in LLC was nonbusiness income, the gain was not apportioned to Idaho but was instead allocated outside of Idaho due to the fact that Idaho allocates nonbusiness gain from the sale of an intangible asset to the seller's place of commercial domicile, which in this case is Virginia.[3]
This case highlights an often-frustrating aspect of state tax compliance: reasonable minds can reach different conclusions on the same set of facts. When taking a position on a state tax return, it is important to understand why that particular position is being taken as well as the potential arguments on the other side. Aprio's SALT team has experience researching and analyzing state tax issues, and we can assist businesses in making an informed decision that considers the potential upside and the downside of each position, the likelihood of success, as well as the taxpayer's risk tolerance. We constantly monitor these and other important state tax topics, and we will include any significant developments in future issues of the Aprio SALT Newsletter.
Contact Kristen Mantilla, SALT Associate at [email protected] or Jeff Glickman, partner-in-charge of Aprio's SALT practice, at [email protected] for more information.
This article was featured in the June 2020 SALT Newsletter.
[1] This decision does not appear to have been published.
[2] Noell Indus. Inc. v. Idaho State Tax Comm'n, Docket No. 46941 (Id. Sup. Ct., May 22, 2020)
[3] Id. Code § 63-3027(f)(3).
Jeff Glickman
Jeff Glickman is the partner-in-charge of Aprio, LLP's State and Local Tax (SALT) practice. He has over 18 years of SALT consulting experience, advising domestic and international companies in all industries on minimizing their multistate liabilities and risks. He puts cash back into his clients' businesses by identifying their eligibility for and assisting them in claiming various tax credits, including jobs/investment, retraining, and film/entertainment tax credits. Jeff also maintains a multistate administrative tax dispute and negotiations practice, including obtaining private letter rulings, preparing and negotiating voluntary disclosure agreements, pursuing refund claims, and assisting clients during audits.

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Born in Manhattan, raised in Coney Island, DJ Ray Vazquez did not waste any time to take over the city. From Latin to R & B to Classics to House Music, he has played the hottest venues of NYC: Studio 54, Latin Quarters, Palladium, Copacabana, China Club, Les Poulets, Roseland Ballroom, and B52's, to name a few!
Resident DJ of the Skate Circle and of Coney Island Boardwalk Parties, Ray's wings do not stop at NY. You might catch him spin in Boston, Philly, Miami, even L.A., you name it. He has appeared on radio stations such as HOT 97, 98.7 KISS, WKTU, and WBLS.


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I just recently realized that I showed you the new cover of Opposites Attract... but got so busy I never told you anything else about it! Right before Spring Quilt Market I ran out of Opposites Attract and decided that before going back to print I'd create a new cover.
I also updated the pattern a bit. It has more diagrams, instructions and looks similar to my more recent patterns. Also I added baby size as another option!
Opposites Attract was the first pattern I released & will always have a special place in my heart. While this pattern can be made with any fabric... I've made it 6 times now! This stack of 4 of them also shows my love of bias cut striped binding!!
Here are some of the outtakes from taking the new cover photo!
Detail close up before washing.
I started out by using the fence in our backyard.
I love how the lighting in this photo really shows the crinkly softness that comes from washing a quilt.
next stop, our neighbor's driveway! I liked how the curve of their path worked with the curves in Opposites Attract.
The back of my quilt. I pieced my label into a strip of leftover fabrics. Then I added more Kona Peacock on both sides to complete the back.
A close up after washing!
For even more photos of Opposites Attract you can check out my Pattern Development Process, a post from last spring.
I love all my opposites attract quilts, but I think this one is my favorite. Do you have a favorite?
I am always a total sucker for blues but the cuddle quilt is pretty darn cute too.
Great Pattern! I prefer the beautiful version in Lanikai, although I like the Anne Kelly version with the chocolate Kona a lot. The binding there is absolutely perfect!
Well now darn it! I already made 2of these...now seeing it in the blue, I'm going to have to make more! :) LOVE it!!!!!
Very nice! Love the purple version!
Thank you for sharing! I enjoyed all of the lovely photos in different lighting. My MIL loves circles (and she is a quilter), so I am going to buy this pattern today and get started making her a full size for her bed! thanks!
Love the blues just that bit more than the purple one.
My favourite form of quilting is anything circular or part circles or curves. Thank you for this pattern.
It is on my to do list.
So thank you for sharing this quilt, Julie.


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Russia Has Spent Over $300 Million Influencing Elections In 24 Countries
By RFE/RL staff - Sep 14, 2022, 12:00 PM CDT
An anonymous U.S. official is alleging that Russia has spent hundreds of millions of dollars since 2014 to influence elections in over 24 countries.
U.S. intelligence believes $300 million is a "minimum" estimate and that Russia likely has transferred additional funds in cases that have gone undetected.
State-owned Russian companies have directly funneled covert funding in Central America, Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Russia has covertly spent more than $300 million since 2014 on efforts to influence politicians and other officials in more than two dozen countries, the U.S. State Department alleged on September 13.
The money was spent to support think tanks backed by far-right nationalist political parties and on such things as front organizations that funnel money to preferred causes or politicians.
U.S. intelligence believes $300 million is a "minimum" estimate and that Russia likely has transferred additional funds in cases that have gone undetected, an official who briefed reporters said.
"We think this is just the tip of the iceberg, and we are engaging with allies and partners to gather more information about this threat," the official said.
U.S. diplomats were sharing their findings with governments in more than 100 nations.
The information follows a review by the U.S. intelligence community of Russia's efforts to influence other countries' politics, the official said.
The State Department is publicly providing some information from the review because of an expectation that Russia would "increasingly rely on its covert influence toolkit" in the coming months, they said.
The report does not name specific Russian targets but says Moscow likely will increasingly turn to covert political financing to undermine international sanctions over its war in Ukraine.
The official noted that President Joe Biden had recently extended a national emergency declaration addressing the continued threat of foreign election interference.
The Russian Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to RFE/RL's request for comment.
The official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity, did not provide specific evidence about the alleged secret financing. U.S. officials previously have pointed to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Ecuador as countries where Russia has intervened directly through its financial power.
State-owned Russian companies have directly funneled covert funding in Central America, Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa, the assessment said. Russia has used cash, made payments in cryptocurrencies, and sent "lavish" gifts, the assessment said.
The Biden administration requested the assessment following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which prompted international sanctions in an effort to isolate Moscow.
The official also declined to say how much money Russia is believed to have spent in Ukraine, where President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his top deputies have long accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of meddling in domestic politics.
The official rejected comparisons between Russia's activities and U.S. financing of media and political initiatives.
The official said the difference was that Putin had spent huge sums "in an attempt to manipulate democracies from the inside."
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Isabel designs and implements creative urban strategies to foster equity and build agency through design and community economic development.
Isabel Saffon joins Karp Strategies as a Consultant with a multidisciplinary background in community planning, urbanism and architecture. She is particularly interested in social impact and exploring actions to overcome socio-economic disparities through human centered design. Before joining Karp Strategies, Isabel collaborated with various community groups, non-profits, government agencies and design studios to inform policy and develop inclusive strategies of open-decision making. Recent work includes developing a playbook that demystifies governmental processes to activate public spaces for the NYC Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, determining recommendations for how policy in Detroit can include historically under represented communities in the production of media and technology to generate more inclusive urban development processes, in Colombia, supporting a multidisciplinary research group to understand how policy can be improved to support peasant economies within the recently signed Peace Agreement between the government and the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) following Colombia's armed conflict between government and guerilla groups.
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Casey Wilson welcomes baby girl Frankie Rose via surrogate
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'He stared at her throughout the meal': Noel Gallagher claims Harvey Weinstein leered at his wife Sara MacDonald at bistro in Paris
The musician, 54, said the incident happened a few years ago while he and Sara, 50, were enjoying a trip to Paris
Speaking on his friend Matt Morgan's podcast, Noel said: 'Harvey Weinstein happened to be sat at quite a big table with loads of similar looking men'
Noel said disgraced film producer Weinstein looked at Sara while the couple were making their way to their table at L'avenue
Weinstein was dismissed from his film company in October 2017 after sexual abuse allegations against him were made public
He was arrested and charged with rape in 2018 and found guilty of two of five felonies in February 2020
The former producer was sentenced to 23 years in prison
By Sean O'grady For Mailonline
Published: 21:00 EST, 20 January 2022 | Updated: 21:12 EST, 20 January 2022
Noel Gallagher has claimed Harvey Weinstein once leered at his wife Sara MacDonald while they were in a bistro.
The musician, 54, said the incident happened a few years ago while he and Sara, 50, were enjoying a trip to Paris.
Speaking on his friend Matt Morgan's podcast, as reported by The Mirror, Noel said: 'We happened to go for lunch. Harvey Weinstein happened to be sat at quite a big table with loads of similar looking men.'
Past: Noel Gallagher has claimed Harvey Weinstein once leered at his wife Sara MacDonald while they were in a bistro (pictured 2015)
Noel said disgraced film producer Weinstein, 69, looked at Sara while the couple were making their way to their table at L'avenue.
He added: 'He stared at her throughout the meal.'
Noel also said that he recently dreamt he was in a bar with Weinstein and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The former Oasis star said he thought: 'Oh no, I've got to wake up, this is too weird.'
Disgraced: The musician, 54, said the incident happened a few years ago while he and Sara, 50, were enjoying a trip to Paris (Weinstein is pictured in 2015)
Weinstein was dismissed from his film company in October 2017 after sexual abuse allegations against him were made public.
He was arrested and charged with rape in 2018 and found guilty of two of five felonies in February 2020.
The former producer was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
Claims: Noel said disgraced film producer Weinstein looked at Sarah while the couple were making their way to their table at L'avenue and stared at her throughout the meal (pictured 2019)
The interview comes as Noel is set to go on tour in June with his band Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.
The singer recently branded ABBA's holographic comeback concerts 'meaningless', insisting he would never put on a show when he wasn't physically on stage.
He told The Sun On Sunday: 'I would not consider gigs with me as a hologram. No, there would have to be an audience involved.
'You need a crowd in front of you. It's a human interaction, and if you don't have that it is meaningless.'
Noel also claimed he would not still be playing when he is the same age as the ABBA members – because he'd rather not be alive in his late-70s.
He explained: 'Do I want to live another 50 years? No. Just think how s**t the world is now. I would rather not live through it. At 75 I want to go.
'My plan for the next ten years is to make three great albums.'
Candid: Noel previously said his plan for the next 10 years is to make three great albums
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Nata a Grenoble e cresciuta a Marsiglia, dopo aver studiato la lingua inglese a Aix-en-Provence, Anaïs Croze è stata dal 1999 al 2003 membro del gruppo Opossum, con i quali si è esibita in più di 200 concerti e ha realizzato un album. Sempre nel 2003 ha iniziato un tour solista, a cui è seguito l'album dal vivo The Cheap Show, che ha raggiunto la 4ª posizione della classifica francese, dove ha trascorso 101 settimane. È stato promosso dal singolo Mon cœur, mon amour, arrivato alla numero 17 in madrepatria. Nell'ambito dei Victoires de la musique la cantante ha accumulato quattro candidature, rispettivamente una nel 2006, due nel 2007 e una nel 2009.

Nel 2006 ha supportato Alain Souchon in  alcuni concerti, per poi pubblicare il primo album in studio, The Love Album, piazzatosi 9º nella classifica francese. Nella medesima graduatoria hanno fatto il loro ingresso anche i tre album realizzati durante gli anni 2010: À l'eau de javel, Hellno Kitty e Divergente. Nel 2012 ha trionfato ai Globes de cristal come miglior interprete femminile.

Discografia

Album in studio
 2008 – The Love Album
 2012 – À l'eau de javel
 2014 – Hellno Kitty
 2017 – Divergente

Album dal vivo
 2005 – The Cheap Show
 2010 – The Short Version

Singoli
 2006 – Mon cœur, mon amour
 2006 – Christina
 2007 – Do I Have Your Attention? (con The Blood Arm)
 2008 – Peut-être une angine
 2009 – Le premier amour
 2009 – J'sais pas
 2011 – I Love You
 2012 – Je n'embrasse pas les garçons
 2017 – J'ai retrouvé mon mojo

Filmografia

Cinema
 Travolti dalla cicogna (Un heureux évenement), regia di Rémi Bezançon (2012)

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The New Wimbledon Theatre was absolutely packed for the first night of this short run of a musical previously staged on Broadway and the West End. Your reviewer arrived late – not the only culprit – but the very helpful and friendly theatre staff managed to find him a seat, and he was soon enjoying an excellent show. The rest of the audience were clearly enjoying it too. Virtually every song was greeted with loud applause.
When a composer or performer has a back catalogue of great popular songs, any musical devoted to them is likely to be a winner. This winning formula is currently packing them in with the life of Tina Turner, and a while back there was a very successful show featuring the oeuvre of Burt Bacharach. What people really want is the songs. The life of the singer or composer is incidental – really just a way of presenting the songs in chronological order. That said, the (friendly?) rivalry between the songwriting teams of Carole King & Gerry Goffin and Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil carries this show along nicely, with plenty of humour to alleviate the stresses and strains of their romantic relationships.
The work of both teams is featured, not just that of Carole King and her husband, and it is remarkable how many great songs were produced to order under the constant pressure of the Tin Pan Alley hit-making machine as it was in the Fifties and Sixties, personified here by the impresario, Donnie Kirshner. It has been said that the constraints of a genre do not bind genius and mediocrity in equal chains, and there is more of the former than the latter on display as we follow the musical career of Carole King from 1958, when she was only 16, through to the landmark album, Tapestry, in 1971, and beyond.
What the audience really loved about this show, however, was the songs and the way they were put across. Although she later started performing her own songs, Carole King wrote primarily for other artists, and we have here some great performances by the cast, most convincingly impersonating popular artists of the time such as the Drifters, the Shirelles, Little Eva and the Righteous Brothers. A word must be said too about the choreography, which is delightful, and about the band, which is excellent. There are only a few days left in which to catch this show at Wimbledon. It is well worth a trip to the end of the District Line!
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Dancing, which is integrally related to music, likely has its origins close to the birth of Homo sapiens, and throughout our history, dancing has been universally practiced in all societies. We hypothesized that there are differences among individuals in aptitude, propensity, and need for dancing that may partially be based on differences in common genetic polymorphisms. Identifying such differences may lead to an understanding of the neurobiological basis of one of mankind's most universal and appealing behavioral traits—dancing. In the current study, 85 current performing dancers and their parents were genotyped for the serotonin transporter (SLC6A4: promoter region HTTLPR and intron 2 VNTR) and the arginine vasopressin receptor 1a (AVPR1a: promoter microsatellites RS1 and RS3). We also genotyped 91 competitive athletes and a group of nondancers/nonathletes (n = 872 subjects from 414 families). Dancers scored higher on the Tellegen Absorption Scale, a questionnaire that correlates positively with spirituality and altered states of consciousness, as well as the Reward Dependence factor in Cloninger's Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire, a measure of need for social contact and openness to communication. Highly significant differences in AVPR1a haplotype frequencies (RS1 and RS3), especially when conditional on both SLC6A4 polymorphisms (HTTLPR and VNTR), were observed between dancers and athletes using the UNPHASED program package (Cocaphase: likelihood ratio test [LRS] = 89.23, p = 0.000044). Similar results were obtained when dancers were compared to nondancers/nonathletes (Cocaphase: LRS = 92.76, p = 0.000024). These results were confirmed using a robust family-based test (Tdtphase: LRS = 46.64, p = 0.010). Association was also observed between Tellegen Absorption Scale scores and AVPR1a (Qtdtphase: global chi-square = 26.53, p = 0.047), SLC6A4 haplotypes (Qtdtphase: chi-square = 2.363, p = 0.018), and AVPR1a conditional on SCL6A4 (Tdtphase: LRS = 250.44, p = 0.011). Similarly, significant association was observed between Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire Reward Dependence scores and AVPR1a RS1 (chi-square = 20.16, p = 0.01). Two-locus analysis (RS1 and RS3 conditional on HTTLPR and VNTR) was highly significant (LRS = 162.95, p = 0.001). Promoter repeat regions in the AVPR1a gene have been robustly demonstrated to play a role in molding a range of social behaviors in many vertebrates and, more recently, in humans. Additionally, serotonergic neurotransmission in some human studies appears to mediate human religious and spiritual experiences. We therefore hypothesize that the association between AVPR1a and SLC6A4 reflects the social communication, courtship, and spiritual facets of the dancing phenotype rather than other aspects of this complex phenotype, such as sensorimotor integration.
Dancing, integrally related to music, likely has its origins close to the birth of Homo sapiens. The authors hypothesized that there are differences in aptitude, propensity, and need for dancing that may be based on differences in common genetic polymorphisms. Identifying such differences may lead to an understanding of the neurobiological basis of dancing.
Variants of the serotonin transporter and the arginine vasopressin receptor 1a genes were examined in performing dancers, elite athletes, and nonathletes/nondancers. The serotonin transporter regulates the level of serotonin, a brain transmitter that contributes to spiritual experience. The vasopressin receptor has been shown in many animal studies to modulate social communication and affiliative behaviors. Notably, dancers scored high on the Tellegen Absorption Scale, a correlate of spirituality, and the Reward Dependence factor in Cloninger's Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire, a measure of empathy, social communication, and need for social contact. Significant differences were observed in allele frequencies for both genes when dancers were compared to athletes as well as to nondancers/nonathletes. These two genes were also associated with scores on the Tellegen Absorption Scale and Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire Reward Dependence, suggesting that the association between these genes and dance is mediated by personality factors reflecting the social communication, courtship, and spiritual facets of the dancing phenotype.
Copyright: © 2005 Bachner-Melman et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Dance may appear to be an unusual phenotype for human molecular genetics studies, but it is no more so than two closely related phenotypes, music  and athletic performance [4−6], that have both become subjects of molecular research. There is accumulating contemporary interest in the neuroscience of music [3,7−11] providing "proof of principle" that a widespread pursuit historically considered as part the human art and cultural heritage also has a solid basis in neuroscience, evolution, and genetics. Both music and athletic performance are complex phenotypes, the presentation of which is molded by environment and genes (and their interaction), especially in elite performers. A good example is absolute pitch, a relatively "clean" musical phenotype, of which the occurrence in approximately 20% of professional musicians is dependent not only on intrinsic ability but also on age of onset and intensity of musical training . Similarly for athletic performance, evidence has accumulated over the past three decades for a strong genetic influence on human physical performance, with an emphasis on two sets of physical traits, cardiorespiratory and skeletal muscle function, that are particularly important for performance in a variety of sports . A number of individual genetic variants associated with elite athletes have been provisionally identified, but there is little argument that elite athletes as well as elite musicians likely possess other characteristics related to personality and emotion that also contribute to their performance.
We suggest the notion that the "dance" phenotype is no more difficult to define than other complex human behavioral phenotypes (schizophrenia, attention deficit, personality, violence, and others) that have been shown to be both heritable and amenable to genetic analysis. Dancers fulfill a set of criteria with considerable face validity (similar in principle to the usual Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–style "symptom checklist" ) that both identifies and distinguishes one disorder from another. For example, the US Department of Labor suggests that the following qualities, inter alia, are required to be a professional dancer: flexibility, agility, coordination, grace, a sense of rhythm, a feeling for music, and a creative ability to express oneself through movement .
In our ongoing studies of the genetic basis of human personality [14−16], we have recruited currently performing dancers (n = 85) who train for at least 10 h per week, because we thought that a study of this group would help us understand why some individuals are endowed with creative and artistic abilities or inclinations. Toward this end, dancers were characterized using both psychosocial instruments and common genetic polymorphisms. Of particular interest are the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ)  and the Tellegen Absorption Scale (TAS) , which, respectively, measure aspects of social communication (TPQ Reward Dependence) and spirituality (TAS), personality facets important in the dance phenotype.
We investigated two polymorphic genes that we hypothesized to add to artistic creativity: the arginine vasopressin 1a receptor (AVPR1a) and the serotonin transporter (SLC6A4). The SLC6A4 long promoter allele is more efficient at the level of transcript, producing more transporter protein that presumably more effectively removes serotonin from the synapse . Both common intron 2 VNTR repeats (10 and 12) enhance transcription , although individual repeat elements differ in their activity in embryonic stem cell models . In lower vertebrates, the promoter region repeat elements of the AVPR1a receptor determine brain-specific expression patterns and are responsible for differences in patterns of social communication across species . In humans, the functional significance of the promoter repeats remains to be elucidated, although association between these repeats and social communication in humans was recently suggested [14,23,24].
We considered that AVPR1a might contribute to the dance phenotype, reflecting this gene's role in affiliative, social, and courtship behaviors , activities that are vital in many kinds of human dancing. Dancing also taps into human spiritual resources as evidenced by the role of dancing in sacred rituals ; it has been shown that serotonin plays a role in human spiritual experiences . Additionally, use of ecstasy, a serotonergic neurotoxin, at rave dances and dance clubs  further links serotonin to both dancing and states of altered consciousness, two phenomena also linked in the absence of drugs. Finally, many studies show that serotonin enhances the release of vasopressin in the brain , suggesting the notion that these two genes, AVPR1a and SLC6A4, are also likely to exhibit epistasis, or gene−gene interactions, in association studies that reflect their interaction at the level of individual neurons as well as on the plane of neurotransmitter pathways. Interestingly, serotonin and vasopressin interact in the hypothalamus to control communicative behavior .
We first examined the arginine vasopressin 1a receptor (AVPR1a) promoter region microsatellites (allele frequencies for RS1 and RS3 are shown in Table 1) and the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4), initially using a case-control design by implementing the Cocaphase routine in the UNPHASED package to compare allele and haplotype frequencies between two groups, dancers versus athletes (Table 2). Comparing dancers with athletes is of interest because both groups of subjects demonstrate physical prowess and dedication to a demanding training routine but are expected to differ in musical aptitude and inclination. Indeed, dancers are sometimes considered performing athletes . Single-locus analysis showed significance for the RS3 marker and a two-locus haplotype (RS1 and RS3). When the AVPR1a polymorphisms were analyzed conditional on the SLC6A4 polymorphisms, highly significant differences in allele and haplotype frequencies were observed (Table 2). Similar results were obtained when dancers were compared to the nondancers/nonathletes (AVPR1a RS1 and RS3 conditional on SLC6A4 HTTLPR and VNTR: likelihood ratio test [LRS] = 92.76, DF = 44, p = 0.00002).
We also tested preferential transmission of allele and haplotypes using a robust family-based design implemented in the Tdtphase routing of UNPHASED by assigning "dancer" as an "affective" status (Table 3). Preferential transmission of the AVPR1a microsatellite alleles from heterozygous parents to their dancer offspring was observed both for individual genes and haplotypes. The most significant evidence for transmission was observed when RS1 and/or RS3 transmission was conditional on SLC6A4 HTTLPR and/or VNTR polymorphisms.
To better understand the psychobiological mechanism by which the AVPR1a gene contributes to the "dancer" phenotype, we also compared dancers to nondancers on several psychosocial scales (Table 4). Highly significant differences between dancers and athletes are observed for two variables: the TAS  (effect size = 0.72 standard deviation [SD] units) and TPQ Reward Dependence  (effect size = 0.68 SD units). Less significant differences were observed for TPQ Self-Esteem , Fear of Failure , and Drive for Success . Absorption is a tendency to experience episodes of "total" attention that fully engage perceptual, enactive, imaginative, and ideational resources . The high scores of the dancers on the TAS and TPQ Reward Dependence suggested it would be worthwhile to examine association between these scores and both genes in the full group (nondancers and nonathletes) of subjects (n = 872 from 414 families) who we recruited in our personality studies. As shown in Table 5 (see Figures 1 and 2 for the distribution of TAS and TPQ Reward Dependence scores in dancers versus nondancers), using the family-based design there is an association between the AVPR1a and SLC6A4 genes and scores on the TAS. The most common (42%) SLC6A4 haplotype, short HTTLPR promoter region-12 repeat VNTR repeat, shows the strongest association with high TAS scores (p = 0.018). The two-locus RS1 and RS3 haplotype is also significantly associated with the TAS (p = 0.047). We also categorized TAS scores ("affected" as top 20%; score > 24, n = 203 affected) and observed significant association when RS1 and RS3 were conditional on the HTTLPR and VNTR polymorphisms (p = 0.01). As shown in Table 6, association was also observed between the AVPR1a RS1 microsatellite and TPQ Reward Dependence (p = 0.009), and the results were highly significant (p = 0.00097) for two-locus analysis when both RS1 and RS3 microsatellites were conditional on both SCL6A4 polymorphisms (n = 181 "affected" top 20% scores > 18). No association was observed between these two genes and TPQ Self-Esteem, Drive for Success, or Fear of Failure (data not shown).
We also examined other polymorphic genes of some interest in neuroscience but failed to show a significant association with creative dancing. These included the dopamine D5 microsatellite marker (DRD5), linked in some studies to attention deficit [33,34], the insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF2, three single nucleotide polymorphisms), linked to eating disorders and self-report measures of altruism [15,35], catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) , linked to cognitive function and schizophrenia , and monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) , linked to violence . Preliminary evidence for an association between the dopamine D4 receptor (DRD4) [35,40] and the dancing phenotype was observed, and further studies of this gene are now in progress.
Few, if any, genes have been associated with artistic creativity, and none, to our knowledge, specifically with dancing. The current study considered two genes, AVPR1a and SCL6A4, that are significantly associated with performing dancers. Although the association seems robust and is significant both by case-control and family-based designs, it is nevertheless a challenge to unravel the brain mechanisms by which these genes partially contribute to dancing, a phenotype extending across musical processing, motor coordination, and artistic creativity.
The AVPR1a gene makes a profound contribution to affiliative and social behavior in lower vertebrates . It is hypothesized that microsatellite promoter-region instability may be a major factor producing diversity in both region-specific gene expression and the resulting phenotypes . In humans, however, the role of the AVPR1a repeat regions has yet to be resolved. Nevertheless, despite the dearth of research regarding the molecular mechanisms involved, the AVPR1a promoter-region microsatellites have recently been associated with autism [23,24], a disorder whose core symptom is a deficit in social communication. Additionally, we have shown that this gene is associated with measures of social behavior in control subjects . We suggest the notion that the association between AVPR1a and dancing may be reflecting the importance of social relations and communication in the dance form and that both dance and its associated gene, AVPR1a, contribute to molding social interactions from the molecular level to the dance floor. As noted by Kaeppler , the cultural form produced in dance, although transient, has structured content and is a visual manifestation of social relations that may be the subject of an elaborate aesthetic system. It seems likely that one of the many prerequisites for a successful dance career is the capacity for social communication through dance ("embodiment").
Intriguingly, Darwin recorded in The Voyage of the Beagle (Chapter 19) his Australian encounter with the so-called White Cockatoo" aboriginal men and their performance in a corrobery, or "great dancing-party." As Darwin notes, "Perhaps these dances originally represented actions, such as wars and victories; there was one called the Emu dance, in which each man extended his arm in a bent manner, like the neck of that bird. In another dance, one man imitated the movements of a kangaroo grazing in the woods, whilst a second crawled up, and pretended to spear him" . It is worth noting in this context that the native Australians arrived on that continent approximately 50,000 y ago . Similarly, Native American, also known for their complex dance culture , are estimated to have arrived in North America about 20,000 to 15,000 calendar years before the present . We conjecture that both groups arrived on their respective continents already with a dance culture (alternatively there was parallel "cultural" evolution of this art form) that we speculate is likely to have originated before the African exodus. The earliest evidence for dance is derived from a cave painting in Creswell, England, that depicts dancing women and is dated approximately 13,000 y ago . We hypothesize that this early evidence for dancing and its occurrence in groups geographically separated by thousands of years during our prehistory suggests a genetic basis for this behavior in H. sapiens.
Another aspect of dance is its spiritual side (e.g., sacred dancing across many diverse cultures) and the relationship of dance to altered states of consciousness; for example, in the Korean Salpuri dance, an ecstatic trance state is induced that results in changes in alpha wave activity . Dances in which the participant (often a woman) enters into a trance and may lose consciousness have been used in a therapeutic setting (e.g., to dispossess "demons") in diverse cultures, including a North African Jewish community . We suggest the notion that the association we observe between SLC6A4 and dance is perhaps related to the need for altered consciousness states that subjects participating in and performing this art form sometimes have. Dancing may have its origins in shamanism, which sometimes used a potent and synergetic mix of music and dancing (and sometimes drugs) to alter consciousness . Perhaps a prerequisite for some types of dancing, in both sacred and more modern "profane" versions as either an artistic performer or a participant, is the ability to enter into such a higher state of awareness.
The personality construct of absorption is generally measured using the TAS, a self-report personality instrument with good psychometric properties . The TAS has been widely applied in research in an attempt to evaluate the significance of an individual's ability to attend intensely and imaginatively to stimuli. It has been found to correlate positively with spirituality and altered states of consciousness, such as an intrinsic religious orientation involving the internalization of religious tenets so they provide meaning and direction , and the frequency and type of reported spontaneous mystical, visionary, and paranormal experiences [18,50,52–55].
The short SLA6A4 promoter region polymorphism that we find associated with scores on the TAS characterizes a less efficient promoter, and in subjects carrying the short allele, less transporter protein is synthesized [19,56], which would lead to altered synaptic levels of serotonin. It is not surprising therefore that we observe an association between TAS scores (indicating in some individuals a propensity to have mystical, visionary experiences, and/or "artistic" sensitivity) and a common genetic polymorphism that modulates synaptic serotonin levels. A large body of evidence links hallucinogens, drugs that alter consciousness, to serotonin, and it is thought that hallucinogens stimulate 5-HT2A receptors, especially those expressed on neocortical pyramidal cells . Altered serotonin levels in carriers of the SLC6A4 promoter region allele might predispose such individuals to a greater ability for imagery and attention to stimuli (especially to musical stimuli) that we hypothesize may provide part of the "hard wiring" that talented and devoted individuals need to perform in an art form that combines a unique combination of both musical and physical skills.
Individuals high in TPQ Reward Dependence tend to be tender-hearted, loving and warm, sensitive, dedicated, dependent, and sociable . They seek social contact and are open to communication with other people. Typically, they find people they like everywhere they go and are sensitive to social cues, which facilitates warm social relations and understanding of others' feelings. The observed association between TPQ Reward Dependence scores and AVPR1a is consistent with the role of the arginine vasopressin receptor in social communication as demonstrated in extensive animal experiments . The association between AVPR1a and Reward Dependence personality traits strengthens the notion that this gene contributes to dancing through its contribution to social communication.
Figure 3 summarizes our notions of how polymorphisms in the AVPR1a and SLC6A4 genes contribute to the dance phenotype.
Promoter region polymorphisms in the AVPR1a receptor region possibly contribute to regional differences in brain arginine receptor 1a expression patterns . Vasopressin release, and subsequent AVPR1a receptor activation, is partially regulated by serotonin (5-HT) . 5-HT is removed from the synapse by the serotonin transporter (SLC6A4), which plays a major role in regulation of synaptic levels of this neurotransmitter. In turn, synaptic SLC6A4 mRNA and protein levels are controlled in part by the presence or absence of a promoter region 44-bp insertion/deletion . Subjects with polymorphic variants of these two genes are therefore predicted to show differences in serotonergic and vasopressin tone that contribute to differences in higher psychological constructs including TPQ Reward Dependence (associated with AVPR1a and AVPR1a × SLC6A4 gene × gene interaction) and TAS (associated with SLC6A4 and AVPR1a × SLC6A4 gene × gene interaction). Dancers score high on these two personality constructs, suggesting the hypothesis that the association between AVPR1a and SLC6A4 polymorphisms and dancing is likely mediated by the action of these two genes primarily on social communication (measured by TPQ Reward Dependence scores) and spirituality (measured by TAS scores). Similar to genes contributing to other complex traits, there are no "dancing" genes but rather common polymorphisms that contribute to simpler endophenotypes , such as TPQ Reward Dependence and TAS, that constitute some of the critical psychological underpinnings of the dance phenotype.
The proposed role of AVPR1a in contributing to the dance phenotype in humans as provisionally shown in the current report has a solid evolutionary basis. Across the vertebrates, vasopressin plays a key role in courtship behavior that frequently involves elements of song and dance. For example, male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) sing directed song to females as an integral part of a courtship display that also includes elements of dance . The choreography of the dance presumably conveys or enhances some part of the message that is carried by the individual's learned song, although the exact importance and function of the dance are not known. Furthermore, arginine vasopressin plays a key role courtship behavior in zebra finches  as well as in other bird species such as the territorial field sparrow (Spizella pusilla) , as it does in social behaviors in mammals and other vertebrates . There is also evidence in humans that vasopressin is important in maternal and romantic love. Imaging studies have shown that brain areas rich in vasopressin receptors are activated when subjects are shown pictures designed to evoke feelings of attachment . The observation discussed above that AVPR1a is associated with a temperament trait, Reward Dependence, also strengthens the conjectured role of this gene in human social communication. Thus, studies in humans as well as in many other animal species suggest to us the reasonable notion that variations in AVPR1a microsatellite structure might also predispose some individuals to excel in dancing. Darwin observed that vocalization is a form of emotional expression, but among neuroethologists, questions concerning the role of emotion in vocal (and dance) communication have been superseded by questions that concern sensorimotor integration . We believe that the two genes we have identified with dancing in humans are likely involved in the emotional side of dance rather than in the sensorimotor mechanics of this complex phenotype. To quote West and King , "Animals do not perceive or communicate for the sake of perceiving or producing a display, but for the sake of managing a social environment." In this context, it is easier to see how the AVPR1a receptor microsatellite polymorphisms contribute to human dance. Human dancing can be understood in part as a form of courtship and social communication that shares a surprisingly conserved evolutionary history, characterized by apparently common neurochemical and genetic mechanisms, with mating displays and affiliative behavior observed across the vertebrates.
One hundred seven dancers, who trained for a minimum of 10 h per week and perform regularly, were initially recruited for this study from professional dance classes and dance companies in Israel. From this group, DNA was obtained from 85 dancers and their parents and was successfully genotyped (82 females and three males). The main types of dance performed by the 85 dancers who were genotyped were classical ballet, modern or contemporary dance, and jazz ballet. The average age of the dancers was 19.30 ± 4.55 y (SD).
This project was approved by the Herzog Hospital Helsinki Committee and the Israeli Ministry of Health, Genetics Section, and all subjects gave informed consent.
Ninety-one (22 males and 69 females) competitive (nonperforming) athletes (and their parents) were recruited. The athletes competed regularly at the highest echelons of their respective sports in Israel and often abroad; 36 (32 females and four males) were endurance athletes, mostly runners and swimmers; 39 (24 females and 15 males) competed at a high level in ballgames such as basketball and volleyball; nine (eight females and one male) competed in technical sports such as sailing and fencing; and seven (five females and two males) competed in the martial arts. Sixty-seven female nonperforming athletes were recruited via sports unions and the Israeli National Sports Institute. Their average age was 21.47 ± 5.23 y.
This group (n = 872 from 414 families) has been described in our previous studies [14,15]. They were primarily university students recruited from the Hebrew University campus, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem. The average age of the subjects was 21.44 ± 4.37 y (range, 13−36 y).
DNA was obtained from all family members and extracted with use of the MasterPure kit (Epicentre, Madison, Wisconsin, United States). Amplification of the RS1 and RS3 arginine vasopressin 1a microsatellites (AVPR1a) was achieved using the following pair of primers: RS1 [24,66] forward (fluorescent) 5′-AGG GAC TGG TTC TAC AAT CTG C-3′ and reverse 5′-ACC TCT CAA GTT ATG TTG GTG G-3′; RS3 [24,66] forward (fluorescent) 5′-CCT GTA GAG ATG TAA GTG CT-3′ and reverse 5′-TCT GGA AGA GAC TTA GAT GG-3′. Microsatellite haplotypes (RS1 and RS3) showed mild linkage disequilibrium (UNPHASED: global D′ = 0.339). The allele frequencies for RS1 and RS3 are shown in Table 1.
Each reaction mixture contained 0.5 μM primer and 20 ng of DNA. A ReddyMix master mix (Thermoprime plus DNA polymerase) was used (Abgene, Surrey, United Kingdom) at a magnesium concentration of 1.5−2.5 mM MgCl2. ReddyMix buffer consisted of 75 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.8 at 25 °C), 20 mM (NH4)2SO4, and 0.01% (v/v) Tween 20. The sample was initially heated at 95 °C for 5 min followed by 30 cycles of 95 °C (30 s), 55 °C (30 s), and 72 °C (40 s), and a final extension step of 72 °C for 10 min. The PCR product was analyzed on an ABI 310 DNA analyzer (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, California, United States).
A subroutine of Merlin was used to test for conformity with Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) and no departure from HWE was observed for either microsatellite.
PCR amplification was carried out using a ReddyMix kit (Abgene). The primers used were forward 5′-GGCGTTGCCGCTCTGAATGC-3′ and reverse 5′-GAGGGACTGAGCTGGACAACC-3′. The reaction mixture contained the following components: 0.5 μM primers, 20 ng of DNA, and 5% DMSO in a total volume of 10 μl. ReddyMix buffer consisted of 75 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.8 at 25 °C), 20 mM (NH4)2SO4, and 0.01% (v/v) Tween 20. After an initial denaturation step of 94 °C for 5 min, amplification was carried out for 35 cycles (94 °C for 30 s, 55 °C for 30 s, and 72 °C for 90 s) in a PerkinElmer (Wellesley, California, United States) Cetus 9600 thermal cycler. A 5-min final extension at 72 °C was used. The reaction mixture was electrophoresed on a 3% agarose gel (Ameresco, Solon, Ohio, United States) with ethidium bromide to screen for genotypes.
PCR amplification was carried out for the intron 2 VNTR with the following primers: forward 5′- TCAGTATCACAGGCTGCGAG-3′ and reverse 5′-TGTTCCTAGTCTTACGCCAGTG-3′ . The reaction mixture contained the following components: 0.5 μM primers, 20 ng of DNA, and 5% DMSO in a total volume of 10 μl. ReddyMix buffer consisted of 75 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.8 at 25 °C), 20 mM (NH4)2SO4, and 0.01% (v/v) Tween 20. After an initial denaturation step of 94 °C for 5 min, amplification was carried out for 35 cycles (94 °C for 30 s, 61 °C for 30 s, and 72 °C for 30 s) in a PerkinElmer Cetus 9600 thermal cycler. A 10-min final extension at 72 °C was used.
The SLC6A4 repeats were in LD: global D′ = 0.71 (UNPHASED). There was no deviation from HWE. The allele frequency of the HTTLPR polymorphism is 50.4% long (plus 44-bp insertion) and 49.4% short (44-bp deletion); there were four individuals with a rare short allele  who were excluded from the analyses. The allele frequency of the VNTR polymorphism is 27.6% of the 10 repeat, 72.2% of the 12 repeat, and four individuals with a 9 repeat who were excluded from the genetic analyses.
The percentage of heterozygote parents is as follows: AVPR1a RS1 = 72%, RS3 = 82%; SLC6A4 HTTLPR = 58%, VNTR = 44%.
Quality of genotyping was determined as follows. (1) All families were initially screened for Mendelian consistency using seven highly polymorphic microsatellite markers. Problematic families who were not consistent with Mendelian inheritance (<1%) were excluded from the study. (2) Because all subjects in the current study were family members, genotype errors with SNPs appearing as Mendelian inconsistency, and automatically flagged by the statistical program, were reexamined either for data entry errors or by regenotyping such families for the aberrant SNPs. (3) In all cases of borderline classifications, when reading the ABI output, the PCR procedure was repeated. (4) Quality control and estimation of error rate (percent of miscalled genotypes) were evaluated by reanalysis of 5% of the families. The observed error rate is estimated to be less than 0.5%. (5) Because deviation from HWE in random samples may be indicative of problematic assays , the frequency of the alleles was examined for HWE. Additionally, the genotype and allele frequencies were compared with published results from other investigations, and were found to be similar.
We used the logistic-based variant of the transmission disequilibrium test (TDT), so-called ETDT , to assess association (and linkage) without confounding effect of population stratification. The TDT, in its simplest version, compares, for one allele, the number of times this allele is transmitted to the number of times where this allele is not transmitted to an affected offspring. Note that only heterozygous parents are informative. This approach can be extended to haplotypes.
The various tests we used are implemented in the program UNPHASED (http://www.rfcgr.mrc.ac.uk/~fdudbrid/software/unphased/). UNPHASED  is a suite of programs for association analysis of multilocus haplotypes from unphased genotype data. UNPHASED currently includes the following programs: UNPHASED, which is the graphical front end to the analysis programs; Tdtphase for TDT and HHRR analysis for nuclear families; Cocaphase, for case-control data; Qtphase, for quantitative traits in unrelateds; Pdtphase, for pedigree disequilibrium tests; and Qpdtphase, for quantitative trait pedigree disequilibrium tests.
Here, the ETDT is adapted to test for an effect at a secondary locus or marker conditional on the association of a candidate disease locus in case–parent triads. Considering gametic haplotypes of a candidate (or established) disease locus and a neutral marker, it is expected that haplotypes with identical alleles at the candidate disease locus, but different alleles at the marker, have equal transmission probabilities. ETDT transmission probabilities can be estimated and, in this adaptation, can be tested for equality using a LRT called Conditional ETDT . A significant difference in transmission of haplotypes identical at the candidate locus, but different at the secondary locus, provides evidence for the involvement of either the secondary locus or a locus in linkage disequilibrium with it.
Because some markers are microsatellites, with RS1 = 9 and RS3 = 17 alleles, including some rare alleles, we used a permutation procedure to confirm the asymptotic p-value. This procedure randomly permutes for parental alleles or haplotypes and the transmission and nontransmission status and computes the observed ETDT statistic. The p-value is the number of times a specific observed statistic is observed in n permutations divided by the number of permutations (n).
For single-locus and haplotype analysis, UNPHASED calculates overall global p-values that consider multiple testing of haplotypes. Those values are included in all of the tables ("Global p-Values").
However, regarding the more complicated problem of how to correct for multiple testing in association studies when there are potentially approximately 30,000 genes in the human genome, the reader is referred to the insightful article by Neale and Sham that discusses this problem . In the current study, the p-values are nominal and not corrected for multiple testing.
This research was partially supported by the Israel Science Foundation founded by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (RPE) and the Israel Association of University Women (RB-M). We would like to thank all of the subjects and their family members, who so willingly participated in this research.
RB-M, AHZ, and RPE conceived and designed the experiments. RB-M, NC, EL, SH, SS, LN, and IG performed the experiments. RB-M, CD, EL, IG, PL, RG, and RPE analyzed the data. CD, AHZ, NC, SH, SS, LN, PL, and RG contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. RB-M, CD, AHZ, and RPE wrote the paper.
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