Recently, Yan Li et al. genotyped 233 SNPs on chromosome 6p in 360 NPC patients and 360 healthy controls, and has demonstrated that in addition to known HLA-A gene, multiple chromosome 6p susceptibility loci contribute to the risk of NPC, possibly through GABBR1 and NEDD9 loss of function [11]. This evidence concerns the gene GABBR1 and nasopharyngeal carcinoma.