TP53 and cancer: One study examining both the p53 Arg/Pro and SNP309 polymorphisms suggested that the p53 Pro-allele can have an impact upon the age of onset of cancers (earlier) and survival (poorer) in patients with Li-Fraumeni syndrome and SNP309 can make the situation worse, but the number of patients with both genotypes was too small to obtain a statistically confident result [68].