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The purpose of this article is to present two main pathology of a financial nature: money laundering and forgery, from the perspective of the frequency of their implementation, the general scale indicated phenomena and their level of intensity in selected Western European countries (France, Belgium). The proposed in the article juxtaposition indicated pathology is expedient, because they represent some of the most dangerous economic phenomena affecting the destabilization of economies of state at the macroeconomic. Presented in article analysis is to determine whether the countries that in economic and financial terms have many similarities, are also similar in the scale of pathogenic events. According to data provided by the Traitement du renseignement et action contre les circuits financiers clandestins (TRACFIN) in France the number of suspicious transactions, using money laundering continues to increase. In 1996 estimated value was approx. 9785 while in 2006 this number increased to 13,206 and in 2014 reached the level of 29,508. Meanwhile, for comparison with the data presented by the Cellule de Traitement des Informations Financie'res [Belgian Financial Intelligence Processing Unit] (CTIF) in Belgium, the number of suspicious transactions in 2010 reminded at the level 17,122 and in 2012 increased slightly to 19,152. Already, therefore, the preliminary findings confirmed that these threats etiology financial maintain upward trend, albeit with varying intensity.

Background: The genetic basis of hearing loss in humans is relatively poorly understood. In recent years, experimental approaches including laboratory studies of early onset hearing loss in inbred mouse strains, or proteomic analyses of hair cells or hair bundles, have suggested new candidate molecules involved in hearing function. However, the relevance of these genes/gene products to hearing function in humans remains unknown. We investigated whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the human orthologues of genes of interest arising from the above-mentioned studies correlate with hearing function in children. Methods: 577 SNPs from 13 genes were each analysed by linear regression against averaged high (3, 4 and 8 kHz) or low frequency (0.5, 1 and 2 kHz) audiometry data from 4970 children in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) birth-cohort at age eleven years. Genes found to contain SNPs with low p-values were then investigated in 3417 adults in the G-EAR study of hearing. Results: Genotypic data were available in ALSPAC for a total of 577 SNPs from 13 genes of interest. Two SNPs approached sample-wide significance (pre-specified at p = 0.00014): rs12959910 in CBP80/20-dependent translation initiation factor (CTIF) for averaged high frequency hearing (p = 0.00079, beta = 0.61 dB per minor allele); and rs10492452 in L-plastin (LCP1) for averaged low frequency hearing (p = 0.00056, beta = 0.45 dB). For low frequencies, rs9567638 in LCP1 also enhanced hearing in females (p = 0.0011, beta = -1.76 dB; males p = 0.23, beta = 0.61 dB, likelihood-ratio test p = 0.006). SNPs in LCP1 and CTIF were then examined against low and high frequency hearing data for adults in G-EAR. Although the ALSPAC results were not replicated, a SNP in LCP1, rs17601960, is in strong LD with rs9967638, and was associated with enhanced low frequency hearing in adult females in G-EAR (p = 0.00084). Conclusions: There was evidence to suggest that multiple SNPs in CTIF may contribute a small detrimental effect to hearing, and that a sex-specific locus in LCP1 is protective of hearing. No individual SNPs reached sample-wide significance in both ALSPAC and G-EAR. This is the first report of a possible association between LCP1 and hearing function.