I will probably end up regretting saying anything about this, but I do feel that it would be cowardly of me not to speak up on the cancellation of @mbeisen for retweeting the Onion article and expressing his opinion about the bombings and impending invasion of Gaza. 1/9 Before saying more, I want to make sure that everybody understand that I strongly condemn Hamas for the atrocious acts of terror they committed and I feel great pain for all victims of this conflict now and over the past many decades. 2/9

@Sean_Harrison2 Dear Sean, we have carefully considered your comments on twitter and worked to reconcile your analyses with ours. The main difference stems from the following: 1/11 @Sean_Harrison2 1. We are analyzing different markers. The marker you are analyzing (rs113010081) is in LD with delta32, but the probe for the marker we are analyzing (rs62625034) directly targets delta32. The SNP is described in the section entitled “Marker selection and validation”. 2/11