Four independent studies have now shown that the G-allele (at-risk allele) of SNP309 in the MDM2 gene, which raises the levels of this mRNA and protein inhibiting p53 activity, lowers the age of onset of tumors and increases the number of independent tumors observed in individuals with Li-Fraumeni syndrome [42, 66–68]. Here, MDM2 is linked to Li-Fraumeni syndrome.