While observing an overall survival (OS) of pancreatic cancer patients from whom DNA was obtained for sequencing of FKBP5, the ns cSNP, Thr(17)Ala, a SNP that was in perfect linkage disequilibrium, LD, (LD = 1) with two other regulatory SNPs, was only present in the individual with the shortest survival time of all individuals in this set of samples. Here, FKBP5 is linked to familial pancreatic carcinoma.