A later study incorporating the same clinical material with additional cases and controls, however, reported reduced combined evidence for association with gout using a strongly correlated marker within SLC17A1 (rs1165196, r2 = 0.96; OR = 0.89, P = 0.013) [4] - in this study the markers most strongly associated with serum urate were within SLC17A1 (rs1165196 and other tightly correlated markers), suggesting that this gene was more likely than SLC17A3 to harbor an etiological variant. This evidence concerns the gene SLC17A1 and gout.