DNA Traits · Mind & behaviour
Clapping in time to a beat
Whether people say they can clap in time with a musical beat.
What the research found
In the cited research, the G allele at rs848293 was associated with a lower likelihood of saying they can clap in time with a musical beat in the studied cohort.
- AA
- More often
- AG
- Middle
- GG
- Less often
- Evidence
- Single genome-wide association, not yet replicated
- Who was studied
- 23andMe research participants of European ancestry
How common each genotype is
| Region | AAMore often | AGMiddle | GGLess often |
|---|---|---|---|
| All regions2,504 people | 35% | 43% | 21% |
| Africa661 people | 62% | 33% | 5% |
| The Americas347 people | 24% | 45% | 31% |
| East Asia504 people | 26% | 48% | 26% |
| Europe503 people | 19% | 50% | 32% |
| South Asia489 people | 34% | 44% | 22% |
Among the 2,504 people of the 1000 Genomes Project, in five world regions. These percentages describe groups of people, never anyone’s chance of having a trait.
Through time
How often the studied letter was read in ancient people, era by era, in the region chosen.
| Before farmingbefore 6500 BC | 52%30 of 58 copies read |
|---|---|
| First farmers6500 to 3000 BC | 73%672 of 917 copies read |
| Bronze Age3000 to 1200 BC | 61%525 of 862 copies read |
| Iron Age and Antiquity1200 BC to AD 600 | 63%675 of 1,080 copies read |
| Middle AgesAD 600 to 1500 | 59%342 of 576 copies read |
| Today1000 Genomes | 56%567 of 1,006 copies |
Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes
- Altai Neanderthal
- No copies
- Vindija Neanderthal
- No copies
- Chagyrskaya Neanderthal
- No copies
- Denisovan
- No copies
Neanderthals and Denisovans carried the other letter, so this letter is younger than our split with them.
The marker
- Gene or region
- VRK2
- Marker
- rs848293
- Location
- Chromosome 2 · GRCh37 58,382,490 · GRCh38 58,155,355
- Letters studied
- A and G, with G as the studied allele
A DNA Traits report reads this marker in your raw DNA file and shows which of the three genotypes is yours, with how common it is. It counts the copies of the studied allele; it does not measure the trait itself.
- Marker
- VRK2 · rs848293
- Location
- Chromosome 2 · GRCh37 58,382,490 · GRCh38 58,155,355
- Studied allele
- G
- Published statistic
- OR 0.94 per G allele (SE 0.01) for answering yes to 'Can you clap in time with a musical beat?', P 9.23e-18, minor allele frequency 0.42; the top of 69 loci (Supplementary Table 2; Table 2 prints effect allele G and the P value) (Supplementary Table 2 (Niarchou 2022 Supplementary Tables file), rs848293 row: OR, SE and P; Table 2 prints the effect allele, minor allele frequency and P; N from the Abstract)
- 1000 Genomes Project phase 3, people with 0, 1 and 2 copies
- All regions 885 / 1082 / 537 · Africa 411 / 219 / 31 · The Americas 84 / 155 / 108 · East Asia 129 / 242 / 133 · Europe 95 / 249 / 159 · South Asia 166 / 217 / 106
What it cannot tell you
The trait was one yes or no question that research participants answered online. This result has not yet been repeated in an independent study.
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