SLC2A9 and gout: This initial study was rapidly followed by six genome-wide association (GWA) studies and other analyses, which reported that genetic variants of the SLC2A9 gene were associated with serum uric acid levels [10], [11], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24] and gout [10], [16], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30] in other cohorts.