CDKN2B-AS1 and cancer: Recent genome-wide association studies have identified ANRIL as a risk locus for several cancers, including breast cancer, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, and gliomas (Shete et al., 2009; Stacey et al., 2009; Bei et al., 2010; Turnbull et al., 2010; Pasmant et al., 2011).